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Look here,” said Will. “When a man comes to me for advice about an idea, I know he doesn’twant advice. He wants me to agree with him. And if I want to...more

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Henry liked fun and avoided when he could any solemn or serious matter, for he confused these with sorrow.

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During the years he was never sick, except of course for the chronic indigestion which was universal, and still is, with men who live alone, cook for ...more

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When two men live together they usually maintain a kind of shabby neatness out of incipient rage at each other. Two men alone are constantly on the ve...more

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Sometimes in the summer evenings they walked up the hill to watch the afterglow clinging to the tops of the western mountains and to feel the breeze d...more

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Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and sisters had looks o...more

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The house was clean, scrubbed and immaculate, curtains washed, windows polished, but all as a man does it - the ironed curtains did not hang quite str...more

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Guys like us got nothing to look ahead to.

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Beside them, little pot-bellied men in light suits and panama hats; clean, pink men with puzzled, worried eyes, with restless eyes. Worried because fo...more

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It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings.