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- Martin Luther King Jr. I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
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To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
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Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
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