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Oh that simplicity and innocence its own unvalued work so seldom knows!


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When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.



Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!



Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.



Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.



O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?



Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.



War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.



Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.





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I've done that kind of stuff in records, where you start going back and you want to just redo everything, destroy everything, because you think it all sucks and you can do it better.



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Money made me evil, court cases got me stressed Niggaz aimin at my head but I still wear my vest.



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She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises.




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