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Kiss my foot, sir; my face is for mouths of consequence.

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He is as good as anybody in this parish! He is very particular, too, about going to church-yes, he is!''I am afeard nobody ever saw him there. I never...more

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This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock.

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That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power which could well-nigh drag her hea...more

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If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

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Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal...more