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Wise Children
Q. Why is London like Budapest? A. Because it is two cities divided by a river.
The Affluent Society
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
The Death of Artemio Cruz
I wake ... the touch of that cold object against my penis awakens me.
The Last Chronicle of Barset
'I can never bring myself to believe it, John,' said Mary Walker, the pretty daughter of Mr George Walker, attorney of Silverbridge.
Zuleika Dobson
That old bell, presage of a train, had just sounded through Oxford station; and the undergraduates who were waiting there, gay figures in tweed or flannel, moved to the margin of the platform and gazed idly up the line.
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