The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind;
A savageness in unreclaimed blood.
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
The time is out of joint:—O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
In the dead vast and middle of the night.
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
All that lives must die,
Passing through nature to eternity.
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
A little more than kin, and less than kind.
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
The outhouse was so overmodestly masked with vines and lattice that it was not concealed at all.
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Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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The Job by Sinclair Lewis
His entire system of theology was comprised in the Bible, which he never read, and the Methodist Church, which he rarely attended.
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The Job by Sinclair Lewis
Of course, if you assume a big enough conspiracy, you can explain anything, including the cosmos itself.
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The Big Time by Fritz Leiber
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