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gain every sin that ever damned
I can understand every crime in the calendar but the crime of greed, every lust of the flesh but the lust for gain, every sin that ever damned a soul but the sin of selfishness.
— from The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by William Cowper Brann

Gladstonian ever since those early days
Of course, to one who had been a Gladstonian ever since those early days in the 'sixties at Newcastle of which I have spoken in a previous chapter, the joy of knowing the great man in the flesh was very great.
— from Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 by T. Wemyss (Thomas Wemyss) Reid

group Everybody says that Edward Drone
Is there any talk yet of who is to run?" Mallory Tompkins lighted up the second of his Prime Minister's cigars and then answered for the group: "Everybody says that Edward Drone is going to run.
— from Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock

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