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1  He quit, though, when he married my mother.
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2  They give guys the ax quite frequently at Pencey.
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3  I was out of breath anyway, so I quit horsing around.
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4  He just wanted me to quit reading and enjoying myself.
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5  I finally quit reading it and went outside for a walk.
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6  They're quite touchy about anything like that, especially my father.
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7  I wear a crew cut quite frequently and I never have to comb it much.
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8  They were closing it up anyway, and the band had quit a long time ago.
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9  I mean I finally quit worrying about whether they'd catch me home or not.
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10  All of a sudden I quit lighting matches, and sort of leaned nearer to her over the table.
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11  Partly because I have a lousy vocabulary and partly because I act quite young for my age sometimes.
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12  When his lips sort of quit shaking a little bit, though, I liked his speeches better than anybody else's.
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13  Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a pain in the ass.
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14  Right that minute, the conductor came around for old Mrs. Morrow's ticket, and it gave me a chance to quit shooting it.
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15  We'd get into a goddam movie or something, and right away we'd start holding hands, and we wouldn't quit till the movie was over.
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16  If they just dropped their dough in her basket, then walked away without saying anything to her, ignoring her and all, she'd quit in about an hour.
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17  I just mean that I used to think about old Spencer quite a lot, and if you thought about him too much, you wondered what the heck he was still living for.
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