Their laughter was like the stridulation of the ghosts of grasshoppers.
Most will do what__ comfortable because, let__ face it, we all like guarantees. Working a draining 9-to-5 will guarantee that your rent is paid on time, it__l guarantee that your loans will be taken care of, it__l guarantee you three square meals every night of the week. What if you broke down an entire lifetime of guarantees and found that your most prized moments consisted of standard, fragmented memories; high school dances, learning how to drive a car, graduating college_ It__ almost as if you stopped living life the moment your education ended, the moment it was time to __row up_ and __et a real job.
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Most will do what__ comfortable because, let__ face it, we all like guarantees. Working a draining 9-to-5 will guarantee that your rent is paid on time, it__l guarantee that your loans will be taken care of, it__l guarantee you three square meals every night of the week. What if you broke down an entire lifetime of guarantees and found that your most prized moments consisted of standard, fragmented memories; high school dances, learning how to drive a car, graduating college_ It__ almost as if you stopped living life the moment your education ended, the moment it was time to __row up_ and __et a real job.
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Just behind his jaw bones a tiny movement was perceptible, like the movement of gills in a fish.
Franklin Fletcher dreamed of luxury in the form of tiger-skins and beautiful women. He was prepared, at a pinch, to forgo the tiger-skins. Unfortunately the beautiful women seemed equally rare and inaccessible. At his office and at his boarding-house the girls were mere mice, or cattish, or kittenish, or had insufficiently read the advertisements.
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