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24 points
"In a letter written in January 1958, Olga Owens Huckins told me of her own bitter experience of a small world made lifeless, and so brought my attention sharply back to a problem with which I had..."
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
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65 points
"He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think..."
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7 points
"As a proof of my readiness to accept autobiographical conventions, let me at once record my two earliest memories."
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"Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive."
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318 points
"The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring- cleaning his little home. "
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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4 points
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"The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it."
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392 points
"You better not never tell nobody but God. It'd kill your mammy."
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1 points