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When a felon's not engaged in his employment Or maturing his felonious little plans His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest man's Ah! When constabulary duty's to be done A policeman's lot is not a happy one.
Walter Raleigh
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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness.
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Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.
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Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.
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Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.
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