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  1. James Hilton _ Goodbye, Mr. Chips: A Novel

    that he was both more and less experienced than the youngest new boy at the School might well be; and that, that paradox of age and youth, was what the world called progress.
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  2. James Hilton _ Goodbye, Mr. Chips: A Novel

    Once, asked for his opinion of bayonet practice being carried on near the cricket pavilion, he answered, with that lazy, slightly asthmatic intonation that had been so often and so extravagantly imitated: "It seems-to me-umph-a very vulgar way of killing people." The yarn was passed on and joyously appreciated-how Chips had told some big brass hat from the War Office that bayonet fighting was vulgar. Just like Chips. And they found an adjective for him-an adjective just beginning to be used: he was pre-War.
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  3. James Hilton _ Goodbye, Mr. Chips: A Novel

    1916…. The Somme Battle. Twenty-three names read out one Sunday evening.
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  4. James Hilton _ Goodbye, Mr. Chips: A Novel

    I thought I heard you-one of you-saying it was a pity-umph-a pity I never had-any children … eh? … But I have, you know … I have …" The others smiled without answering, and after a pause Chips began a faint and palpitating chuckle. "Yes-umph-I have," he added, with quavering merriment. "Thousands of 'em … thousands of 'em… and all boys.
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  5. James Hilton _ Goodbye, Mr. Chips: A Novel

    For the first time in his life he felt necessary-and necessary to something that was nearest his heart. There is no sublimer feeling in the world, and it was his at last.
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