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I and don't
`` I don't have many strays coming to my front door '', he said.
`` I mean, we don't have any way to get there and we can't expect you to quit work just to take us to town ''.
He stopped, embarrassed, and Morgan said, `` I understand that, but I don't savvy why you'd go off and leave your jobs in the first place ''.
I don't want to leave it ''.
Now dammit, I don't want to go into any more explanations.
It's bigger than it has to be, though I don't see where it's doing any harm.
`` I don't mind washing dishes now and then '', he said pleasantly.
I don't know what goes on around here, and I don't care.
I don't know what makes you think you can get away with this kind of business, and I don't care about that, either.
We've been starving and I don't like to starve ''.
I'm well aware that you've got a pedigree as long as my leg, and that I don't amount to anything.
`` I don't know, Tom.
But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!
`` I don't know, Mr. Brenner '', he said haltingly, beginning to get an inkling of Brenner's plans.
If I don't come back in the house, Breed's going to '' --
I don't know what you're up to, but when Brenner '' --

I and know
`` I know '', Jones said dejectedly.
`` I know him.
My future lay solely with the hall, yet what did I know about the hall at this point??
I wished to prepare myself but did not even know what sort of clothes I ought to be wearing.
`` I know you've got a grudge against me, and maybe I can't blame you.
`` I don't know nothin' about him ''.
I suppose you don't know anything about a piece of two-by-four, either ; ;
`` I know you ain't ''!!
I said, `` Do we know each other, Miss ''??
He caught up with me once and grabbed me, but I was all covered with zing -- it's very slippery, you know ''.
`` I didn't know.
`` How would I know??
True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.
Why she married him I do not know.
`` I know.

I and yet
Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.
Although I had been inside it I had not yet seen it functioning.
For weeks I wandered about this neighborhood of warehouses and garages, truck terminals and taxi repair shops, gasoline pumps and longshoremen's lunch counters, yet never did I cease to feel myself a stranger there.
`` Yes, George, but I ain't got poor old Pat's body yet.
`` As an independent American I considered all who were not for us, and you amongst the rest, as against us, yet be assured that John Jay never ceased to be the friend of Peter Van Schaack ''.
His reply was, `` Everything that has been printed derogatory to you, purporting to have come from me, was a betrayal, and nothing yet has been printed which I have sanctioned ''.
Although his tender nights were not the ones I dreamed of, nor was it for yachts, sports cars, tall drinks, and swimming pools, nor yet for money or what money buys that I burned, I too was burning and watching myself burn.
Supposing you or I were being accused in this manner, and yet we were doing our level best to carry on our work.
yet the tide is too strong against us, and I fear ( if the framer of hearts help not ) it will force me to little Patience, a little isle next to your Prudence ''.
Meanwhile I myself was not yet saved.
If it proclaims that the best is yet to be, it always arouses, at least in the young, either a suspicious question or perhaps the exclamation of the Negro youth who saw on a tombstone the inscription, `` I am not dead but sleeping ''.
Our litterbug ordinances are not enforced and I have yet to read of a conviction in a littering case.
I was surprised and sorry to find in your issue of March 4 a long and detailed attack upon a book that had not yet been published.
I know that I myself felt that it was a mortal shame for a man to be torn open by a British musket ball, as Isaac had been, yet I also felt relieved and lucky that it had been him and not myself.
All this was unknown to me, and yet I had dared to ask her out for the most important night of the year!!
No one could be more devoted than he to the American Congress as an institution and more aware of its historical significance in the political history of the world, and I shall never forget his moving talks, delivered in simple yet eloquent words, upon the meaning of our jobs as Representatives in the operation of representative government and their importance in the context of today's assault upon popular government.
We have not yet succeeded in establishing recognition of technical specialization comparable to our higher levels of management, but I believe we will trend in this direction but not to exceed vice-president ''.

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