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go into the towns is to escape
And I should wind up by saying, amid the derisive laughter of the audience, that one reason, at all events, why the real peasants go into the towns is to escape from slavery to these pinchbeck fellows who come out of the towns.
— from All Men are Ghosts by L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) Jacks

God I think this is the end
"Take him up, Mr. Prior—dear God, I think this is the end."
— from God and the King by Marjorie Bowen

girlhood is to teach it the elemental
Surely one of our duties to girlhood is to teach it the elemental truths of manhood.
— from Woman and Womanhood: A Search for Principles by C. W. (Caleb Williams) Saleeby

give it to them if they ever
She pinned her name and route on the refectory wall, begging me to give it to them if they ever inquired for her.
— from My Home in the Field of Honor by Frances Wilson Huard

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