Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
("The Eyre Affair")
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We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.
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True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...
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Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.
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We were developing a machine that used egg white, heat and sugar to synthesize methanol when a power surge caused an implosion. Owens was meringued. By the time we chipped him out the poor chap had expired.
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The Goliath Corporation was to altruism what Genghis Khan was to soft furnishings.
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