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The cries continued. It is not men, they could not cry so terribly."Wounded horses," says Kat.It's unendurable. It is the moaning of the world, it is the martyred creation, wild with anguish, filled with terror, and groaning.

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Stepping through fields of flowers and taking to her breast buds that had broken and lambs that had fallen; with the stars in her eyes and the wind in her hair— He took her bag.

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Pride has often been his best friend. It has connected him nearer with virtue than any other feeling.

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Crowds of lower-caste workers were queued up in front of the monorail station—seven or eight hundred Gamma, Delta and Epsilon men and women, with not more than a dozen faces and statures between them.

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This isn’t just an epigram – life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

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Oh! how heartily did she grieve over every ungracious sensation she had ever encouraged, every saucy speech she had ever directed towards him. For herself she was humbled; but she was proud of him.

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We loved our country as much as they; we went courageously into every action; but also we distinguished the false from true, we had suddenly learned to see. And we saw that there was nothing of their world left. We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

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All right then, said the savage defiantly, I’m claiming the right to be unhappy.

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Harmony was the soul of our companionship, and the diversity and contrast that subsisted in our characters drew us nearer together.

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and floating in the Sound was a triangle of silver scales, trembling a little to the stiff, tinny drip of the banjoes on the lawn.

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it does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl.

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Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

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I will not torment you with vain wishes, which may seem purposely to ask for your thanks.

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A la vida se la observa mejor desde una sola ventana.

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No, she thought, putting together some of the pictures he had cut out - a refrigerator, a mowing machine, a gentleman in evening dress - children never forget. For this reason, it was so important what one said, and what one did, and it was a relief when they went to bed.

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She yawned gracefully in my face.

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First of all, he asked Miss Lucas. I was so vexed to see him stand up with her! But, however, he did not admire her at all; indeed, nobody can, you know; and he seemed quite struck with Jane as she was going down the dance. So he inquired who she was, and got introduced, and asked her for the two next. Then the two third he danced with Miss King, and the two fourth with Maria Lucas, and the two fifth with Jane again, and two sixth with Lizzy and the Boulanger -""If he had ha any compassion for me," cried her husband impatiently, "he would not have danced half so much! For God's sake, say no more of his partners. O that he had sprained his ankle in the first dance!

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He strove to shelter her, as a fair exotic is sheltered by the gardener, from every rougher wind, and to surround her with all that could tend to excite pleasurable emotion in her soft and benevolent mind.

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