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Most Of My Schooldays Were The Worst Day Of My Life.

Oh, He Did His Best To Make Their Short Lives Miserable, Because That Was His Job, But Nothing He Could Think Up Was Half As Bad As The Stuff They Thought Up Themselves.

Pride Is All Very Well, But A Sausage Is A Sausage.

Inside Every Lump Of Coal There's A Diamond Waiting To Get Out.

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