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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
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
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher

Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

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