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...[A] lot of them, without even understanding the cause, just give up. They take what they can-mostly in pleasure, and they make the grand gesture, the wild gesture, because what have they got to lose if they do die in a car wreck or a knife fight or something else equally stupid.

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Unscramble JOHN 4-letter words that start with J 4-letter words that end in N 4-letter words containing OH 4-letter words containing HN 4-letter words with J and O

Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day

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The old plural of Eye.

Hint 2 anagram

ENE

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AND STILL ___

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