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After the inspection of the building, the Commission, which was bribed, lunched heartily, and it was precisely a funeral feast over honesty.

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He who tells lies is dirty.

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At three o'clock in the morning they wake him: he has to go to his job at the railway station, and so every day for the last fourteen years.

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A lady grumbles: "I write to my son that he should change his linen
every Saturday. He replies: 'Why Saturday, not Monday?' I answer:
'Well, all right, let it be Monday.' And he: 'Why Monday, not
Tuesday?' He is a nice honest man, but I get worried by him."

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A clever man loves learning but is a fool at teaching.