If on thoughts of death we are fed,Thus, a coffin, became my bed.
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
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I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
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