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PATRICK CHAN
Word Juxtapoz: An amazing collection of classic word puzzles
(fourth edition)
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General
The leading two recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.
Edgar H. Schoaff
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If A equals success, then the formula is A = X + Y + Z. X is work, Y is play, Z is keep your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
Lily Tomlin
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The best throw of the dice is to throw them away.
Proverb
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Loneliness is knowing the television schedules by heart.
Bill Vaughan
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Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter
Jack Benny
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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard
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Never try to make people like yourself - you know and God knows, that one of you is enough.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
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I can’t think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends.
Douglas Feaver
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About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Herbert Hoover
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Perhaps the world’s second-worst crime is boredom; the first being a bore.
Cecil Beaton
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As you go through life you are going to have many opportunities to keep your mouth shut.Take advantage of all of them.
James Dent
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times - they had nobody to talk about.
Agnes Repplier
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For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction - especially on Mondays.
Paul Sweetney
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The problem with putting the armour on is that, while it protects you from your pain,it also protects you from pleasure.
Celeste Holm
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General
Be nice to the people on the way up, because you’ll meet them on your way down.
Wilson Misner
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The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence.
Art Linkletter
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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie
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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t, they’d be married too.
H.L. Mencken
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same thing.
Anonymous
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The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.
Gene Hackman
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An optimist is a man who starts a crossword puzzle with a fountain pen.
Anonymous
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One good turn gets most of the blanket.
Anonymous
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Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we diet!
Anonymous
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Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G.M. Trevelyan
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To keep your marriage brimmingWith love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you’re wrong, admit it;Whenever you’re right, shut up.
Ogden Nash
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You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Bob Hope
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Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort.
Bert Murray
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If you steal from one another, it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner
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Man does not live by bread alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Adlai Stevenson
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Behind every successful man, there stands an amazed woman.
Anonymous
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Business
There are some men who, in a fifty-fifty proposition, insist on getting the hyphen also.
Lawrence J. Peter
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Boss (to Departmental Head) : How many people work in your office?DEPARTMENTAL HEAD : About half of them, sir.
Gyles Brandreth
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Business
Committee : a group that keeps minutes but squanders hours.
Anonymous
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To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
Robert Copeland
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Business
The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application.
Stanley J. Randall
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Business is the art of extracting money from another man’s pocket without resorting to violence.
Max Amsterdam
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Business
Money does make all the difference. If you have two jobs and you’re rich, you have diversified interests.If you have two jobs and you’re poor, you’re moonlighting.
Anonymous
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By working eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert Frost
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Business
Nothing is more inevitable than death than taxes.
Benjamin Franklin
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The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
Williams Rogers
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Business
Bulls make money and bears make money, but pigs seldom do.
Wall Street maxim
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Put all your eggs in one basket and - watch that basket.
Andrew Carnegie
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Business
Buy old masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses.
Lord Beaverbrook
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Gentlemen prefer bonds.
Andrew Mellon
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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, SR
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In God we trust. All others pay cach.
Anonymous
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Business
An accountant is man hired to explain that you didn’t make the money you did.
Anonymous
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A banker is a man who lends an umbrella when the weather is fair,and takes it away from you when it rains.
Anonymous
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Business
I believe we should all pay our tax bill with a smile. I tried - but they wanted cash.
Anonymous
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Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Herman Wouk
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Business
Marketing is simply sales with a college degree.
John Freund
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Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you’re doing,but nobody else does.
Steward Henderson Britt
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Business
The meek shall inherit the world, but they’ll never increase market share.
William G. McGowan
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The longest word in the English language is the one following the phrase: ‘And now a word from oursponsor.’
Hal Eaton
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Law & Politics
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
Honore de Balzac
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If there are no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Charles Dickens
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Law & Politics
Contract : an agreement that is binding only on the weaker party.
Frederick Sawyer
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Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton
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Law & Politics
Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocketand give your coat to your creditors.
Joey Adams
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A jury consistes of twelve persons chosen to decide who have the better lawyer.
Robert Frost
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Law & Politics
Lawyers are the only person in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
George Savile
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If the laws could speak for themselves they would complain of lawyers in the first place.
Jeremy Bentham
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Law & Politics
A lawyer’s opinion is worth nothing unless paid for.
Enligh Proverb
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[Rape] is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.
Freda Adler
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Law & Politics
Murder is always a mistake ... One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after.
Oscar Wilde
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The right to be heard does not include the right to be taken seriously.
Hubert Humphrey
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Law & Politics
Political ability is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month andnext year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn’t happen.
Winston Churchill
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Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even when there’s no river.
Nikita Krushchev
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Law & Politics
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.
Charles De Gaulle
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Communism might be likened to a race in which all competitors come in first with no prizes.
Lord Inchape
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Law & Politics
Communism is like Prohibition, it’s a good idea but it won’t work.
William Rogers
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The monarchy is so extraordinarily useful. When Britian wins a battle she shouts,“God saved the Queen”; when she loses she votes down the prime minister.
Winston Churchill
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Science
Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question “How?” but gets terribly confused when youask the question “Why?”.
Erwin Chargaff
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Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendshipor statesmanship to a formula.
Dr. Louis Orr
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Science
We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alsatian goose. We create new forms of energy; we makenew elements; we will crops; we wash brains. I can hear them in the dark sharpening their lasers.
Erwin Chargaff
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In Genesis, seeing the world filled with violence, God decided to drown all mankind except Noah’s family.But because that family carried the same genes as those who had drowned violence continued unabated.
Robert Gorham Davis
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Science
Humans can learn to like anything, that’s why we are such a successful species.
Jeannette Desor
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Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.
David Sarnoff
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Science
Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see,machines with which to measure and fourth, money.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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Technology .. is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the backwith the other.
C. P. Snow
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Science
We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn’t him, we’d be watching television by candlelight.
Milton Berie
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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove fora minute - and it’s longer than any hour. That’s relativity.
Albert Einstein
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Science
Two in every one people in this country are schizophrenic.
Graffito
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I read in the Reader’s Digest that cigarettes are bad for you. So I had to give up reading the Reader’s Digest.
Anonymous
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Sports
Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.
David Bristol
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Sport is the toy department of the human life.
Howard Hale Brown
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Sports
Winning isn’t everyting, it’s the only thing.
Vince Lombardi
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I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ‘em out, I pick the round.
Muhammad Ali
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Sports
Cricket ... You have two sides: one out in the field and one in. Each man that’s in the side that’s ingoes out and when he’s out he comes in and the next man goes in until he’s out.
Anonymous
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Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.
Heywood Hale Broun
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Sports
If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.
Bob Hope
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There is no dilemma compared with that of the deep-sea diver who hears the message from the shipabove, “Come up at once. We are sinking.”
Robert Cooper
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Sports
If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
Jack Lemmon
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If you ever get belted and see three fighters through a haze, go after the one in the middle. That’swhat ruined me - I went after the two guys on the end.
Max Baer
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Sports
In boxing the right to cross-counter is distinctly one of those things: it is more blessed to give than to receive.
P. G. Wodehouse
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I went skiing last week and broke a leg. Fortunately, it wasn’t mine.
Anonymous
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Sports
Look, if you’re in the penalty area and aren’t quite sure what to do with the ball, just stick it in the netand we’ll discuss all your options afterwards.
Bill Shank ly
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Some people think football is a matter of life and eeath ... I can assure youit is much more serious than that.
Bill Shankly
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Sports
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
Vernon Law
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I was nervous, so I read the New Testament. I read the verse about have no fear, and I felt relaxed.Then I jumpd farther than I ever jumped before in my life.
Willye White
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Leisure
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become known,then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognised.
Fred Allen
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it’s their fault.
Henry A. Kissinger
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Leisure
Fun is like insurance. The older you get, the more it costs.
Kin Hubbard
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The mirror tells you the facts, never the poetry.
May Sarton
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Leisure
The amount of sleep required by the average person is about five minutes more.
Max Kauffmann
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One wonderful thing about a vacation is that it makes you feel good enough to go back to work andpoor enough so that you have to.
James A. Nix
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Leisure
An after-dinner speech should be like a woman’s dress: long enough to cover the subject and shortenough to be interesting.
Anonymous
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Every novel should have a beginning, a muddle and an end.
Peter De Vries
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Leisure
In Hollywood all marriages are happy. It’s trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.
Shelley Winters
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The kids today are quite right about the music their parents listened to: most of it was trash. Theparents are quite right about what their young listen to: most of it is trash too.
Gene Lees
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Leisure
I’ve found a great way to start the day - I go back straight to bed.
Anonymous
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I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor; rich is better.
Sophia Tucker
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Leisure
Love ... the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering thatshe looks like a haddock.
John Barrymore
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Love is like a war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
H. L. Mencken
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Religion
Be ye angry and sin not; let not the sun go down upon your wrath.
Ephesians 4:26
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The Devil can quote scriptures for his purpose.
Shakespeare
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Religion
Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating andill-living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer of property.
Jeremy Collier
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By night an atheist half believes in God.
Young
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Religion
The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of sufferings,and the most comfortable way of dying.
Flavel
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Within that awful volume liesThe mystery of mysteries.
Scott
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Religion
A glory gilds the sacred page,Majestic like the sun,
It gives a light to every age;It gives, but borrows none.
Cowper
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Charity shall cover a multitude of sins.
I Peter 4:8
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Religion
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Hebrews 13:8
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The best of manThat ever wore earth about Him was a sufferer,A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit,The first true gentleman that ever breathed.
Decker
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A Christian in this world is but gold in the ore; at death the pure gold is melted out and separatedand the dross cast away and consumed.
Flavel
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