A lot of people, when they have any substantial sum, either like to show it In some way or to talk about it, and then, if they happen to be robbed of it, they wonder.
— from Comrades of the Saddle; Or, The Young Rough Riders of the Plains by Frank V. Webster
That laughable idea that God had a separate scrutinizing eye, like the eye of a parrot, on every human atom!
— from Cytherea by Joseph Hergesheimer
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