Things are seldom what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream.
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W.S. Gilbert Quote
“I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something in-conceivable. I can't helpit. I was born sneering.”
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