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" Sooner or later we're all someone's dog. "

Terry Pratchett

Sooner Or Later

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" I think I would like to go into modelling. Of course, I don't know how to do it, and wouldn't be any good at it if I did, so I'm going to employ someone to walk the catwalks on my behalf. It would still be me, of course. "

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" Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. "

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" Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them. "

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" The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head. "

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