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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

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Drinking your milk and talking at the same time may result in your having to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwords.
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Drink Dry Milk Result Time
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
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Beneath Bridge Lean Peace River Slip Stand Sudden Watch
Forever isn’t long at all, as long as I’m with you.
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Anniversary Couple Forever Long Marriage Valentine
One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.
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Advantage Discover Life Organize Surprise
Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on.
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Food Number Possible Spiritual Weather
Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.
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Amateur Chess Desire Gut Poetry
A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
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Exercise Fitness Growth Gymnastic Try
It gets you nowhere if the other person’s tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.
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Conservation Person Tail
Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more to give way to the happiness of the person you love.
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Happiness Love Person Step
Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
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Bad Game Golf Sports World
Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
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Bore Class Division Funny Need Particular Subject
Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.
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Forest Going Inspirational Mistake Pieces Step Watch
How sweet to be a Cloud. Floating in the Blue!
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Blue Cloud Float Sweet
Organization is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it’s not all mixed up.
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Business
If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.
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Respect Statement True
Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.
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Bother Hear Listen Positive Underestimate Value

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