. . . as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.
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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, Love the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die (But, alas, we never do.)
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Why, that dog is practically a Phi Beta Kappa. She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw -- I don't say she will but she can.
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Tonight my love is sleeping cold
Where none may see and none shall pass.
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People hurry and work and swear,
Laugh and grumble and die and wed,
Ponder what they will eat and wear, --
Don't they know that our love is dead?
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Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.
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