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The eyes are the windows of a woman's heart; you may enter that a way! - [Eyes] The hand that gives, gathers. - [Hand] There is emulation even in vice. - [Emulation] Time's irreparable footprints. - [Wrinkles] Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of poverty. - [Virtue] Virtue, alas! not unfrequently trips and falls on the sharp-edged rock of poverty. - [Temptation] Weakness indicates dependence, and there is a degree of trust and tenderness also in it. - [Weakness] One cold, rainy evening, toward the end of October, 1838, a man of athletic build, wearing an old broad-brimmed straw hat and a ragged slop, serge shirt, which came down over the hem of trousers of the same stuff, crossed the Pont-au-Change, and dived into the City ward of Paris, a maze of dark, narrow, and crooked streets, which spreads from the Palace of Justice to Notre Dame Cathedral. - Mysteries of Paris (pt. 1, ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] The Arctic Ocean encircles with a belt of eternal ice the desert confines of Siberia and North America--the uttermost limits of the Old and New worlds, separated by the narrow, channel, known as Behring's Straits. - The Wandering Jew (prologue) [Books (First Lines)]
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