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why not

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why not
there is no reason not to. “Do you want Italian food tonight?” “Sure, why not!” If you're so unhappy there, why not leave right now?
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Then a question, startling because of its reasonableness: Why not order today?
Why not still proceed over the untamed yet obedient element?
But dreams--of those who dream as I, Aspiringly, are damned, and die: Yet should I swear I mean alone, By notes so very shrilly blown, To break upon Time's monotone, While yet my vapid joy and grief Are tintless of the yellow leaf-- Why not an imp the graybeard hath, Will shake his shadow in my path-- And e'en the graybeard will o'erlook Connivingly my dreaming-book.
 
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