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[ ENGLISH MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS]
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| ... Thomas Paine He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes Chinese Proverb The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within Mahatma Gandhi No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell! Lord Byron Conscience ... |
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[ ENGLISH FICTION]
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| ... any human being to have to say to himself—with an earnest belief in his own assertion—that all the joy of this world is over for him; and is the sadder because such conviction is apt to exclude the hope of other joy. This woman had said ... |
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[ FICTION]
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| ... the rope sprang taut and yanked Sir Sagramor out of the saddle! Great Scott, but there was a sensation! Unquestionably, the popular thing in this world is novelty. These people had never seen anything of that cowboy business before, and it carried them clear off their feet with delight. From ... |
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[ ENGLISH FICTION]
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| ... a million that was just as sacredly mine as -- 'Come, come, prophet,interrupted Flambeau, with a kind of sneer; 'remember that all this world is a cloudland.The hierophant of the sun-god made an effort to climb back on his pedestal. 'It is not the mere money,he cried, ... |
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either outward tears or inward. People are too
apt to think that there is no true significance in their words when
they say that this world is a vale of tears.&cdq;
&odq;All the same. I like to see mamma crying like that.&cdq; &odq;mind it, ... |
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| ... character than her mother. Yet perhaps this woman may be better and happier than her mother ever was; perhaps she is so already - perhaps this world is not a wild, lying dream, as I have occasionally supposed it to be.But the thought of my own situation did not permit ... |
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[ LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCES]
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| ... I do not know about the rest of the universe, but so far as one can argue from probabilities one would say that probably this world is a fair sample, and if there is injustice here then the odds are great that there is injustice elsewhere also." Supposing you got ... |
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[ FICTION]
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| ... to rot on the ground, if you'd a hit him; an' me an' Maria's loved him so! "D'you ever stop to think how full this world is o' things to love, if your heart's jest big enough to let 'em in? We love to live for the beauty o' the ... |
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| ... Everdene at home?see, sir,said Mrs Coggan, and in a minute appeared in the room. `Dear, what a thirtover place this world is!continued Mrs Coggan (a wholesome-looking lady who had a voice for each class of remark according to the emotion involved; who could toss a pancake ... |
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| ... a challenge, would be a poor compliment. As for entreating you to take the Priory, I really do not feel equal to the responsibility." "I accept in all humility," said the Professor, as he opened the gate of the Red House, "a deserved reproof." CHAPTER XXVI. "A SINGULAR character!" said ... |
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[ POETRY]
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| ... our 'ouse-flag flyin' free -Ten thousand men on the pay-roll and forty freighters at sea! He made himself and a million, but this world is a fleetin' show, And he'll go to the wife of 'is bosom the same as he ought to go -By the heel of ... |




