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1  "Well, these books are all scientific," insisted Tom, glancing at her impatiently.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  I am, and you are and you are and---- After an infinitesimal hesitation he included Daisy with a slight nod and she winked at me again.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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3  It was on that slender riotous island which extends itself due east of New York and where there are, among other natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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4  They are not perfect ovals--like the egg in the Columbus story they are both crushed flat at the contact end--but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that fly overhead.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  The Carraways are something of a clan and we have a tradition that we're descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the actual founder of my line was my grandfather's brother who came here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War and started the wholesale hardware business that my father carries on today.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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6  Most of the confidences were unsought--frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon--for the intimate revelations of young men or at least the terms in which they express them are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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