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“... it was a bitter and biting iron-gray afternoon, that clanked like armor and was as cold as a frosty axehead.”
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“There was one fello there danced awful. He pumped with his arm like he was tryin to get his engine started.”
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“When in doubt, always start a new paragraph.”
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“... to be human is to be on the defensive, somewhere, somehow.”
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“... when I have jobs I dread, I am for takin' 'em by the forelock and grapplin' with 'em at once.”
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“Lucy laughed her most silvery laugh, the laugh that had made several men believe that she understood what they said.”
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“Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker — covetousness.”
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“People on the whole are very simple-minded, in whatever country one finds them. They are so simple as to take literally, more often than not, the things their leaders tell them.”