Slander is more subtile than any microbe.

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You cannot squander ten thousand a year and then balance the account by
thrusting a stale bun, dipped in charity soup, into a beggar's hand.

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Lolling on a velvet cushion in a fashionable church will not be a valid
answer when you meet the poor girl 'beyond' whom you ground down to make
trousers for twenty cents a pair. You didn't do it? You wore the
trousers, it's all the same.

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A cynic's description of the honeymoon--

Kisses allopathic.
Kisses homeopathic.
The cold douche.
Hot mustard plasters.

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A lawyer's description of matrimony in the United States--

Court--Appeal.
The suit filed.