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| Threepenny Proverbs |
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| A fool and his money are soon insufferable. |
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| Birds of a feather are shot together. |
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| The Church is the Mother of Invention. |
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| Peace is the continuation of State Policy by covert means. |
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| Early to bed and early to rise places a man under police surveillance. |
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| Beauty is in the lap of the shareholder. |
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| The human race is not to the swift. |
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| The early bird has to eat worms. |
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| God protects drunks and politicians. |
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| Reality: love it or leave it. |
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| The hypochondriac is a true believer. |
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| Redundancy is its own reward. |
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| Conformity is the sincerest form of democracy. |
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Excerpted From:
Idiomatic, Poems 1978-1992 by Thomas Good
[Small World Press] |
| © 1992, Thomas Good |
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