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• I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror.
• He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each cup, cut his jugular…
• The dusk was performing its customary intransitive operation of "gathering".
• Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable.
• The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given…
• I mean to say, whether a yarn is tall or small I like to hear it well told. I like to meet…
• Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him. Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and…
• The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.
• Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?
• Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill.
• The only result my father got for his money was the certainty that his son had laid faultlessly the foundation of a…
• A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.

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