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A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer.Stephen Crane
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A man with a full stomach and the respect of his fellows had no business to scold about anything that he might think to be wrong in the ways of the universe, or even with the ways of society. Let the unfortunates rail; the others may play marbles.Stephen Crane
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The moon had been lighted and was hung in a treetop.Stephen Crane
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It appeared that the swift wings of their desires would have shattered against the iron gates of the impossible.Stephen Crane
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Camp fires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night.Stephen Crane
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He did not consider public opinion to be accurate at long range.Stephen Crane
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His face had been twisted into an expression of every agony he had imagined for his friend.Stephen Crane