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Some persons hold that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of the Heart.
If they would rather die, they’d better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
I wear the chain I forged in life.
If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
The bowls never wanted washing.
Leave me! Take me back. Haunt me no longer!
Every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.
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