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Changing “decide” into “decision”
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” - Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
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“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.” -James Joyce’s “The Dead”
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“If you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with.” –Billy Preston
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“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.” -The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
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“I said, ‘Who killed him?’ and he said ‘I don’t know who killed him, but he’s dead all right,’ and it was dark and there was water standing in the street and no lights or windows broke and boats all up in the town and trees blown down and everything all blown and I got a skiff and went out and found my boat where I had her inside Mango Key and she was right only she was full of water.” - - After the Storm by Ernest Hemingway,
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“For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas and hath not left his peer.” -Lycidas by John Milton
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,” - Charles Dickens “A Tale of Two Cities”
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“You know, at one time, I used to break into pet shops to liberate the canaries. But I decided that was an idea way before its time. Zoos are full, prisons are overflowing. Oh my, how the world still dearly loves a cage.” -Harold and Maud by Colin Higgins
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.” -Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
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“I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless.” –With Love by Thin Lizzy
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“These are the stakes–to make a world in which all God’s children can live or go into the dark. We must either love each other or we must die.” —Presidential Candidate Lyndon Johnson’s “Daisy commercial”
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“*There are* four seasons in the mind of man: He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear Takes in all beauty with an easy span:” -La Belle Dame sans Merci by John Keats
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“Blind, old, and lonely, when his country’s pride, The priest, the slave, and the liberticide, Trampled and mocked with many a loathed rite . . .” - John Milton
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“Is whispering nothing? Is leaning cheek to cheek? is meeting noses? Kissing with inside lip? stopping the career Of laughter with a sigh? (a note infallible Of breaking honesty!) horsing foot on foot?…” -The Winter’s Tale by WIlliam Shakespeare
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“Do I love you because you’re beautiful? Or are you beautiful because I love you?” - Do I Love You Because You’re Beautiful? by Oscar Hammerstein
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"I met a girl *who sang the blues* and I asked her for some *happy* news…” -Don McLean, "American Pie"
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An example of this would include an antithesis: Antithesis: “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”
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“She lowered her standards by raising her glass, Her courage, her eyes and his hopes.” -Have Some Madeira, M’Dear by Flanders and Swann
