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As she came closer to him she noticed that there was a clean fresh scent of heather and grass and leaves about him, almost as if he were made of them. She liked it very much and when she looked into his funny face with the red cheeks and round blue eyes she forgot that she had felt shy.

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Wyndham Lewis

A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them.

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