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1  It ain't the same if I tell it.
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Context   In CHAPTER 1
2  I'm gonna tell George what you says.
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Context   In CHAPTER 4
3  Don't tell Curley I said none of this.
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Context   In CHAPTER 2
4  "Just thought I'd tell ya," said Crooks.
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Context   In CHAPTER 3
5  You don't need to tell me where it's at.
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Context   In CHAPTER 3
6  "Don't tell nobody," Lennie said to himself.
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Context   In CHAPTER 3
7  "He can do anything you tell him," said George.
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Context   In CHAPTER 2
8  "That's a dirty thing to tell around," he said.
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Context   In CHAPTER 2
9  George said quickly, "Don't tell nobody about it."
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Context   In CHAPTER 3
10  "If you was to do that, we'd tell," he said quietly.
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Context   In CHAPTER 4
11  George can tell you screwy things, and it don't matter.
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Context   In CHAPTER 4
12  "Nobody can't tell what a guy'll do," he observed calmly.
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Context   In CHAPTER 4
13  If you don't tell nobody what happened, we ain't going to.
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Context   In CHAPTER 3
14  "I'm jus' tryin to tell you I didn't mean nothing," said Curley.
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Context   In CHAPTER 3
15  An I tell ya, you got floozy idears about what us guys amounts to.
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Context   In CHAPTER 4
16  Jus' tell Lennie what to do an he'll do it if it don't take no figuring.
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Context   In CHAPTER 3
17  If some guy was with me, he could tell me I was asleep, an then it would be all right.
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Context   In CHAPTER 4
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