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running about

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There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Ray Bradbury

Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands. Louisa May Alcott

He took particular delight in neutralizing those who desperately needed to be neutralized, those overblown, self-important, arrogant half-wits who were always running about dictating behavior, morals, and theology to everyone else. And he never looked back. Jack McDevitt

He was transfixed at the sight of the lords and ladies of his realm running about like demented chickens. Jonathan Stroud

You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite down to the feet, and little white bands, such as the clergy wear. Karl Philipp Moritz

It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all. A. A. Milne

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