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To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.


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Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.



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She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret through some sense inherited from sleep.



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Mrs. Trotter made a sincere though wrong sound, while opening her handbag to look for help.



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His legend will be written down, eventually, by those who are troubled by it.



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