keeps the cigarettes close to his heart

keeps the cigarettes close to his heart
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you know what grinds my gears, these women are the cause of all venality, the fountainhead, that is, for all vile and base activities that undermine the growth of capital. if you think that government officials are dishonest, you have to look at where they learn the ideas. they learn from the children, because children are our future and our past and our negative mirror. i have been informed that all the children have money to buy schoolbooks but they just take the money and buy these delicious balls of fried dough and then tell me that the books are too expensive. and who's propping up the whole regime? yes, the very mothers who wake up at 4am to gather the firewood and water to make the dough and fry them, carry their vials of oily, doughy crack to our school's proud cafeteria, and slurp up all of the money that the textbook publishers work like galley slaves to keep a rusty, leaky ship whose crew is stricken with beriberi afloat because they care about the future, the children, the past, and how do they thank them?

furthermore i am happy to report that my observations while riding public transport have led me to believe that a police officer or gendarme has never accepted a bribe. we have only seen rare cases where a bill or coin was accidentally left folded inside registration papers and he holds onto it for them for safekeeping, where he is asked for change by a driver and by some sleight of attention shorts him slightly, and even cases where a driver gives money to someone else, a brigand of sorts, who takes advantage of a lax moment in the official's movements to slip money into his pocket as a way of laundering the same.