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I am getting angry enough to do something desperate: jumping out of the window would be admirable exercise.

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A truth universally acknowledged is: that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

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After a night behind the scenes; Paul found the schoolroom more than ever repulsive.

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Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble; therefore, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death.

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My schedule forced me to: work every day at four, pick up my brothers at nine and go to bed at midnight.

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I write of other law-copyists; yet, of Bartleby nothing of the sort can be done.

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I am getting angry enough to do something desperate - to jump out of the window would be admirable exercise.

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I thought - undoubtedly - looking at the self where there are no plays by women, her work would have gone unsigned.

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Ahead or astern, on one side or the other, at intervals long or short, fled long sparkling streak, and there was to be heard one sound: the whirroo of the dark fin.

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Mona must look really forlorn: because Helen softens.

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