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Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at.


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People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.



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A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.



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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.



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