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To Jackson the human leg was an obsolete form of conveyance. To use it betokened extreme penury or a barbaric devotion to exercise.
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There's a general consensus of opinion that people in love are apt to look silly — except to each other.
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Any road is bound to arrive somewhere if you follow it far enough.
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I bore you and I nursed you, you were flesh and blood and bone of me.
I toiled for you and loved you, but you've gone from me and grown from me.
Oh, once you were my little maid, but now you've travelled far.
For it's a grown woman, a grown woman, and a stranger that you are.
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Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.
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Patricia Wentworth
Born:
November 10, 1877
Died:
January 28, 1961
(aged 83)
Bio:
Patricia Wentworth was a British crime fiction writer.
Known for:
Grey Mask (1928)
The Chinese Shawl (1943)
The Clock Strikes Twelve (1944)
The Case Is Closed (1937)
Miss Silver Comes to Stay (1948)
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