April 2012
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“The Lincoln hills rose up around me at the extremity of a snowy plain, in which...”
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"My Dad left it for me when he passed away a few...
“My Dad left it for me when he passed away a few years ago, about a year before I met Liz.” He said, opening the passenger door, grabbing his bag from the front seat and shutting it again.
“He bought it in 69 as soon as he got back from Vietnam, right before he met my mother. Drove it from Oregon to New York, and back again. Quite the rambling guy for a while.” He...
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“Man is a natural gambler, and life is the biggest stake he can lay.”
Wolf...”
– Indeed. You couldn’t have said it better Jack.
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When you are assigned a group project
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“Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the...”
– The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Ernest Hemingway 1936
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“I say! you know what countryman ’e carpenter be?”
“Yes,” said I, “he’s a...”
– Oh, no!” said he; “I’ve seen too much of them men to want to see ’board a ship. If they can’t have their own way, they’ll play the devil with you.”
Indeed.
Richard Henry Dana (1815–1882), Two Years Before the Mast.
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