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I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.
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Adventure Couple Happen Meet Valentine
A pekingeese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized lion.
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Dog Funny Lion
Something feels funny. I must be thinking too hard.
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Feeling Funny Hard Thinking
She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.
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Discipline Goodness She Thinking
A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
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Business Labor Oneself Save Thinking Trouble
What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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Character Decent Fellow Man Patato Pretty
So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.
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Book Introduction Perhaps Stop
Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die. Still you wait and will not try – A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.
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Bird Born Dare Die Fly Opportunity Rise Swift Time Try Wait Wings
The best way to write poetry, letting things come.
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Come Poetry Writing
To seem natural rather than to be natural.
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Natural One Liner Reality
War is something of man’s own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
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Man Mankind War
Walking with her man, Lost in a dream
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Boyfriend Dreams Husband Lost Man Walk
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
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Anniversary Couple Live Valentine Want
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
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Consideration Difference Positive Thinking
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
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
Tigers don’t like honey.
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Honey Motivational One Liner Tiger
I was walking along looking for somebody, and then suddenly I wasn’t anymore.
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Look Lost Sudden Walk
Let’s begin by taking a smallish nap or two.
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Beginning Nap One Liner Sleep
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
One of the advantages of being disorganized is the joy of discovery.
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Advantage Discover Joy Organization
I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget.
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Forget Remember Try
Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by.
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Case Door Drop Friendship Sure
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
When late morning rolls around and you’re feeling a bit out of sorts, don’t worry; you’re probably just a little eleven o’clockish.
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Feeling Morning Probable Sort Worry
How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
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Couple Goodbye Hard Lucky Relationship
If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.
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Song Want

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