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Then I thought a minute, and says to myself, hold on, — s’pose you’d a done right and give Jim up; would you felt better than what you do now? No, says I, I’d feel bad — I’d feel just the same way I do now. Well, then, says I, what’s the use you learning [...]

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But evil is wrought by want of thought As well as want of heart. – Thomas Hood, “The Lady’s Dream”

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POZZO: Help! … VLADIMIR: Let us not waste our time in idle discourse! (Pause. Vehemently.) Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. Not indeed that we personally are needed. Others would meet the case equally well, if not better. To all mankind they were [...]

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The neighborhood where I grew up had no privacy fences. The backyards flowed from one house to the next, with minor interruptions — hedges, gardens, garages, streets, and the occasional picket fence. And the neighborhood children made it all into a single playground. We ranged, perhaps more wildly than our parents would have liked, across [...]

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