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Lookin' back is a bad habit.


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My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference.



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But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?



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As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.



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