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• It would be hard, dreadfully hard, on either of them to know that he was not our son; and henceforth I will, like you, try to give up wishing that I could tell which is which. —  The Dash for Khartoum A Tale of Nile Expedition
• I know it's not meekness, but meanness, that I've got to fight, and it's hard to tell which is the worst The only animal which the Bible calls patient is an ass, and that's both good doctrine and good natural history. —  Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham ; Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy."
• Her long curved eyelashes hid her eyes, which presumably were also pink, but certainly my mother's broad pleasantry had called a tell-tale blush to the cheek of the young person As we drew near Folkestone I remembered the letter, but the sight of the Roding postmark induced me to defer opening it till we should be on board the steamer. —  Much Darker Days
• I don't know what to do, but I do know this--I don't let you in until I have seen you both together, so that I can tell which is which Both together!" —  Short Cruises
• They are both so like each other that we cannot tell which is which when they are apart, and both are so like their father that we can almost fancy we see him, when looking at either of them The last day we were there, however, they were in disgrace, for Johnny had pushed Freddy into the washing-tub, and Freddy, in revenge, had poured a jug of treacle over Johnny's head! —  The World of Ice

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