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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.

Bertolt Brecht

Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice

On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.

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