Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?
("Tess of the D'Urbervilles")
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The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.
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Nought would he hear;
Then with wild rainy eyes she obeyed,
She chid when her Love was for clinking off wi' her.
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The purpose of a chronicler of moods and deeds does not require him to express his personal views upon the grave controversy above given.
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With Life for lyre,
The beats of being raging
In me like fire.
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