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every life and politics is directly
City and countryside, factories and play, schools and the family are powerful influences in every life, and politics is directly concerned with them.
— from A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann

Every leaf and petal is distinct
Every leaf and petal is distinct from the others by means of the brass wires, and the colors do not at any time run together.
— from Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Japan and China by Thomas Wallace Knox

electric lamp and Palmer is downstairs
“I have received another electric lamp, and Palmer is downstairs!
— from K by Mary Roberts Rinehart

even leave a pig in distress
He could not even leave a pig in distress.
— from Men of Our Times; Or, Leading Patriots of the Day Being narratives of the lives and deeds of statesmen, generals, and orators. Including biographical sketches and anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglass, Buckingham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and Beecher. by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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