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“The cork was in the bottle. He and the Atropos were trapped.”
“When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.”
“I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.”
“Yet if he had been asked if he were happy He would have admitted readily enough that he was uncomfortable, that he was cold, and badly fed, and venomous; that his clothes were in rags, and his feet...”
“Yet if he had been asked… if he were happy… He would have admitted readily enough that he was uncomfortable, that he was cold, and badly fed, and venomous; that his clothes were in rags, and his fe...”