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1  You could do nothing in Dublin.
Dubliners By James Joyce
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2  I feel a ton better since I landed again in dear dirty Dublin.
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3  Dublin is such a small city: everyone knows everyone else's business.
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4  No social revolution, he told her, would be likely to strike Dublin for some centuries.
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5  He went often to her little cottage outside Dublin; often they spent their evenings alone.
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6  His face, which carried the entire tale of his years, was of the brown tint of Dublin streets.
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7  THE cars came scudding in towards Dublin, running evenly like pellets in the groove of the Naas Road.
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8  Her husband was captain of a mercantile boat plying between Dublin and Holland; and they had one child.
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9  After the break-up at home the boys had got her that position in the Dublin by Lamplight laundry, and she liked it.
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10  He had sent his son to England to be educated in a big Catholic college and had afterwards sent him to Dublin University to study law.
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11  He had made his money as a butcher in Kingstown and by opening shops in Dublin and in the suburbs he had made his money many times over.
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12  He lived in an old sombre house and from his windows he could look into the disused distillery or upwards along the shallow river on which Dublin is built.
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13  He picked his way deftly through all that minute vermin-like life and under the shadow of the gaunt spectral mansions in which the old nobility of Dublin had roystered.
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14  He had also been fortunate enough to secure some of the police contracts and in the end he had become rich enough to be alluded to in the Dublin newspapers as a merchant prince.
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15  He dined in an eating-house in George's Street where he felt himself safe from the society of Dublin's gilded youth and where there was a certain plain honesty in the bill of fare.
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16  Dr. Halpin, assistant house surgeon of the City of Dublin Hospital, stated that the deceased had two lower ribs fractured and had sustained severe contusions of the right shoulder.
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17  JAMES DUFFY lived in Chapelizod because he wished to live as far as possible from the city of which he was a citizen and because he found all the other suburbs of Dublin mean, modern and pretentious.
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