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Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take i ...
--Then, said Cranly, you do not intend to become a protestant?
MI said that I had lost the faith, Stephen answered, but not t
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--Do you know what Ireland is? asked Stephen with cold violence. Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
MUpon my word it makes my blood boil to hear anyone compare Aristotle with Plato. MWhich of the two, Stephen asked, would have ban ...
Where there is a reconciliation, Stephen said, there must have been first a sundering.
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
MWhat is a ghost? Stephen said with tingling energy. One who has faded into impalpability through death, through absence, through ...
Twenty-two years ago Judge [then-Senator Stephen] Douglas and I first became acquainted. We were both young then; he a trifle youn ...
I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species, ...
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