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Most authors spend their time saying what has been said before—usually said much better.
He realizes that purely a moralizing tract would not reach the public. Therefore he is putting plenty of smut into his book.
Evil, it seemed to him, was the most contagious of all known diseases. Put a thief among honest men and they will eventually relieve him of his watch.
A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let’s emulate that wise old bird.
He was the daddy of them all, said Shanahan.
Well we’re all lazy, he said in a broad-minded manner, it’s the legacy of our first parents. We all have it in us. It is just a question of making a special effort.
