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... whole libraries extant , crammed with irrefragable evidence that tradesmen are sneaks who live but to breathe the breath of knavery , and that their customers are , for the most part , little better than shoplifters . Is there a ...
... whole libraries extant , crammed with irrefragable evidence that tradesmen are sneaks who live but to breathe the breath of knavery , and that their customers are , for the most part , little better than shoplifters . Is there a ...
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... whole world was at its height , one character was , by common consent of authorship , age after age , held sacred . It has been an established rule that one personage , and only one , should always be left alone . That personage is the ...
... whole world was at its height , one character was , by common consent of authorship , age after age , held sacred . It has been an established rule that one personage , and only one , should always be left alone . That personage is the ...
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... whole soul into the subject she reads about , and of being borne away by it , as on a pair of paper pinions , millions of miles from her garden , and her glass , and her piano ; her bullfinch , her milliner , -nay , even from the youth ...
... whole soul into the subject she reads about , and of being borne away by it , as on a pair of paper pinions , millions of miles from her garden , and her glass , and her piano ; her bullfinch , her milliner , -nay , even from the youth ...
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... whole , decidedly better not Just as it happened to report it . For the Emperor's a sort of man Who , whether they can't or whether they can , Expects the troops who receive his pay , On all occasions to win the day ; And so he was told ...
... whole , decidedly better not Just as it happened to report it . For the Emperor's a sort of man Who , whether they can't or whether they can , Expects the troops who receive his pay , On all occasions to win the day ; And so he was told ...
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... whole of their resources . To frighten British soldiers back And Was all that they were bent upon , very curious was the tack Which now at last they went upon . A painted dragon with extended claw , They knew to be a sight Themselves at ...
... whole of their resources . To frighten British soldiers back And Was all that they were bent upon , very curious was the tack Which now at last they went upon . A painted dragon with extended claw , They knew to be a sight Themselves at ...
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