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The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers….Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.

William Golding

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Been Began Ever Off Say Seven Since Still When Write You
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Considerate Every Found Himself Improvioson Life One Part Walk Wearisomeness
How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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Act Expect First Proper Rescue Thing
The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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Greatest Ideas Simplest
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Attractive Beem Cloured Even Mother Mouse Percival Very
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Almost Certain Convenience Could Feel Fundamental Long Novel Really Say Something
He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
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Absorb Become Beyond Control Describe Excercise Felt Happiness Himself Living Thing
Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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Agree Better Hunt Kill
The Navy’s a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, ‘Frightfully sorry, old chap.’
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Business Fire Frightfully Gentleently Horizon Navy People Say Pull Ship Very Water
We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.
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Best English Everything Obey Rule Savage Them
Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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Certainty Know Life Mean Scientific
We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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All Do Go Grown Up Just On
As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn’t seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
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Box Country Dream never People Person Raed Seen Serialized Soon
Honestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
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Awful Contemporary Honestly Main Raed Time True Write
The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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Dream Fear Hurt More Thing
Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Better Break Hunt Law Rescue Thing Up

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