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Some have brains, and some haven’t, and there it is.

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A pekingeese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized lion.
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Dog Funny Lion
How sweet to be a Cloud. Floating in the Blue!
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Blue Cloud Float Sweet
Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem.
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Animal Listen People Problem
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
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
Promise you won’t forget me, ever. Not even when I’m a hundred.
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Couple Forget Old Promise Valentine
I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.
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Adventure Couple Happen Meet Valentine
When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
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Adventure Boots Happen Pretty Sure
We’ll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
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Bond Friendship Wait
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
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
When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don’t eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.
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Door Eat Friendship Stuck Try
Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.
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Drug Flower
Some people care too much. I think it’s called love.
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Care Love People Thinking
You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
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Advise Character Watch
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

Some have brains, and some haven’t, and there it is.

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