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Half a league
Half a league
Half a league onward
With a hey-nonny-nonny
And a hot cha-cha.


P.G. Wodehouse

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note and half as telescope
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To put to words the grief i feel,
For words like nature,ha...
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I'd brush the summer by,
With half a smile and half a spur...
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we dwell in stand there stalwartly.
Only we
pass ...
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“What? By seducing him?” Morpheus scof...
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whether the glass is
half empty or half full,
as long as what ...
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I sometimes hold it half a sin
To put in words t...
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And followe...
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natural a...
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What is JUST in a world
you've ripped in two
as if there could be
...
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but they couldn't copy my mind
so I left them sweating an...
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She didn't know the half of it.

Unabl...
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Half in dreams I sorrow after
The delight of early skies;...
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'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh...
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May creep back, silent, to still village wells
Up...
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I covered the receiver for a moment. “We need a team name.”
“H...
ILONA ANDREWS Hello?"
"You should check the curtains before you take a bath, princess,"a deep, mocking voice ...
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ERIC LOUIS (Sid's suicide note:)
WE HAD A DEATH
PACT
I HAVE TO KEEP
MY HALF OF THE
BARGAIN...
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Some say it’s half empty and sink,
I feel you...
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I didn't see you.
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Tho' her parting dims the day,
S...
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Left to be finished by such as she;
And she a fair d...
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Nothing to brag on,
but enough for y...
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Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then your...
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"While I was sitting outside with one of my half aunts."
This seemed to sa...
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of the monsters

hidden underneath
my bed.

i’m muc...
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To storm or fire the world must fall
An oath to ke...
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in thick black texta
across half the pages
of my best storybook,
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SHESH NATH VERNWAL Your half empty..

A broken glass,

I love you can sound so beautiful

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"One and a half," Thalia said.
Sh...
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And how it flies to-day
In your land and my land
And half a wo...
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He laughed tiredly, holding me close with one large warm ha...
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Up high with all its grace,
I can only show you at night ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES They call him Aslan in That Place," said Eustace.
"What a curious name!"
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APURVA GAGLANI Ain't 'cha gonna run?" she asked.
"No," he said, shoving the sheet away. "I'm gonna fly.
KATHERINE PATERSON I like my kahva the way I like my women... hot and black."

"I like my kahva the way I lik...
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"I was just wondering," he said,"about the significance of your canine...
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Keep me with stern and stubborn pride,
And when at last...
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"Hrrm. Which half?"
I blinked. "Uh...dunno. Let'...
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Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure...
OMAR KHAYYáM Here is the same clock that walked quietly
Through those enormous years I half recall,
When b...
JUDITH WRIGHT What are you doing?" Damen's breath
was shaky.

"What am I doing? You are not very C.S. PACAT You'd sell out too if you had half a chance."

Kumo snorted and shook her head. "You can't...
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of gashes you opened when, in an attempt
to be Superman, y...
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Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
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I see a glass that's twice as bi...
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"What do you think?"

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To storm or fire the world must fall,
An oath to ...
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was just practice
all the bodies you’ve ever undressed<...
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"You should be thrilled you're halfway there.
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“Oh, son. How could you ask a man who us...
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When the evening is spread out against the sky

Like...
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Do you cherish your humble and silky life?
Do you adore the green ...
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music for real peo...
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I jettisoned half of a much-loved and I think irreplaceable pair ...
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Aiden cracked a half...
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SOPHIE KINSELLA Who overcomes
By force, hath overcome but half his foe.
JOHN MILTON Think you a little din can daunt mine ears?
Have I not in my time heard lions roar?
Have I...
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P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to...
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE It is good rule in life to never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and t...
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE