A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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Cruel, Wheels, Oils, Runs
An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
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Husband, Indispensable, Easy-Going
Petty laws breed great crimes.
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Great, Laws, Crimes, Petty
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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Beauty, Cruel, Familiarity, Magician
It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.
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Work, Very, Many, Sticks
Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.
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Death, Which, Terror, Calmness
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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Innocence, Always, Vice, Superior
Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
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More, Tender, Could, Meet
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
- Ouida
Man, Prey, Take, Heart
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