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We would love to forgive your debt, small as it is.

It’s just that we’ve run out of ink.

Yes, we still have paper forms, paper and pen.

We like the beautifully time-consuming tradition.

Oh…you’ve got a pen on you?

That should do it.

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We usually say Yes.

Then the work of making the impossible possible, begins.

It’s worked eighteen times out of nineteen.

The failed one was not wanted in the end, so no major disappointment.

We don’t recommend this approach, it suits us.

A pull-you-through chorus that suits you, that’s what we suggest.

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“Could you just lower it a bit please?”

“I’m not lowering my standards for anyone!”

“ I wasn’t talking about your standards.”

“If I lower anything it lowers me”

“I’m sorry to hear that, perhaps someone else could lower it for me”

“There’s no one else here”

“Can we negotiate?”

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A wide screen

A broad grin

Lifting waves

A hair style

A garden

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Deny the racketeers and bad soothsayers.

Give freely of soup and sympathy

Try the other door.

A view opens up with trees lakes and mountains.

Stay a while.

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