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Finally, when he was dressed, he produced an ink-bottle and inked the skin of his ankles where it showed through his socks.
the faces comelier and milder and more alike, without that fierce individuality and malice of the French.
He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much
disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him),
It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.
It was our revenge upon them for having humiliated us by feeding us.
A man receiving charity practically always hates his benefactor—it is a fixed characteristic of human nature; and, when he has fifty or a hundred others to back him, he will show it.
