The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.
– PG Wodehouse
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- Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people’s legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world. – Sarah Addison Allen
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- . . . for not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent’s love. – Charles ens
- Never go on a date unarmed.- Words of wisdom from my father. Well, my foster father. I was an orphan, of course. The best kings always are. – Brandon Sanderson
- Revenge is an orphan in bad company she had learnt. Until it accepts the truth, it may never find grace. – Sanchit Gupta
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- How many miles to Babylon?Three score and ten!Can I get there by candle light?Yes, and back again! – E Nesbit
- …and they buried him there, just off the trail, in a glade ten miles from the majestic Salween, a long way from home, but what dead man is not? – Stephen Becker
- How long you been in the infantry, sir? Anything under ten miles counts as ‘almost there’. – Henry V ONeil
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- If God wanted us to use the metric system, He would have given us ten fingers and ten toes. – Judith Stone
- Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time. – Anna Funder
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- The day is crisp and clear, almost like every other morning he’s taken the same walk in the snow, hiking to the forest and back. – MC Frank
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- My pockets had always puzzled Weena, but at the last she had concluded that they were an eccentric kind of vase for floral decoration. – HG Wells
- Best, perhaps to keep one’s nickels forever in one’s pockets, to savor delicious possibility over mundane experience. – Dexter Palmer