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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.

Bertolt Brecht

It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
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
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear

There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.

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