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1  But he'd give you the goddam tie.
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2  I don't know, and I don't give a damn.
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3  He didn't give a damn about the fencing.
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4  I asked him how much he'd give me for it.
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5  I'd give anything if I hadn't, but I did.
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6  "All right, give it back to me, then," I said.
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7  They give guys the ax quite frequently at Pencey.
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8  Those bastards never give your message to anybody.
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9  They probably thought I was too young to give anybody the once-over.
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10  I told him he thought he could give the time to anybody he felt like.
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11  You take a guy like Stradlater, they never give your regards to people.
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12  I told him to stop off on the way to the can and give Mrs. Schmidt the time.
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13  I don't give a damn, except that I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age.
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14  I had a helluva time convincing her that I didn't give a good goddam where her dog relieved himself.
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15  What I liked about her, she didn't give you a lot of horse manure about what a great guy her father was.
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16  I think maybe I'm just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn't give much of a damn if they lose their gloves.
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17  I mean if a boy's mother was sort of fat or corny-looking or something, and if somebody's father was one of those guys that wear those suits with very big shoulders and corny black-and-white shoes, then old Hans would just shake hands with them and give them a phony smile and then he'd go talk, for maybe a half an hour, with somebody else's parents.
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