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the reason this little desert dump had staggering quantities of underground butane was the combination of its people’s natural aptitude for farting and the Spartan customs that compelled them to sit ass down on the sand.
What was easier to hijack than democracy? Like most things in the world of men, democracy was principally a question of money, and the prince had plenty.
From time immemorial, the gifts of princes have always been poisoned.
The villagers were completely discombobulated. Most of them hadn’t even chosen their spouses, and now they were meant to choose who would govern them.
“What you lose in strength, you gain in clear-sightedness. The trick is to reach the age of wisdom while you’re still strong enough to do things.”
‘God blesses the man of good deeds, and men bless the man of many sheep!’
And even though barrels were sold cheaply to friends, the manna they brought was enough to eradicate hunger and explore the ocean depths and attain the farthest reaches of space. But it wasn’t to be.
man, in search of land, gave the plague to his fellow man in the folds of his offerings.
He could only read Arabic, his mother tongue, but he knew that it was no longer the best steed for galloping along new paths of knowledge.
