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No mates exist for countless miles around, and a chestnut, though both male and female, will not serve itself.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
The Jungle Book (Illustrated): The 1894 Classic Edition with Original Illustrations
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But as I studied him – and believe me, I drank him in like a parched animal at a riverbank – I began to see the cold, steady certainty of the chill green depths.
Jennifer Saint • Ariadne: The Brilliant Feminist Debut that Everyone is Talking About
A man is not a good man to me because he will feed me if I should be starving, or warm me if I should be freezing, or pull me out of a ditch if I should ever fall into one. I can find you a Newfoundland dog that will do as much. Philanthropy is not love for one’s fellow-man in the broadest sense.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
Having begun in 1922 as a bookkeeper and auditor, Chandler was by 1931 a highly paid vice president of the Dabney Oil Syndicate, but his alcoholism, absenteeism, promiscuity with female employees, and threatened suicides[12] contributed to his dismissal a year later, after ten years with the company.
Raymond Chandler
