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— Stephen Crane

I stood upon a high place,

And saw, below, many devils

Running, leaping,

And carousing in sin.

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The act or process of acquiring.

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The stranger’s eyes flashed suddenly.

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Paul Laurence Dunbar·1872–1906·modernist literature
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Go to them up here?” he said; “ never.They would give me my supper with theirhypocritical patronage and put it down to charity.You give me something to eat as a favour.Your gift proceeds from disinterested kind- 189
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