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  • Ser Waymar had been a Sworn Brother of the Night's Watch for less than half a year, but no one could say he had not prepared for his vocation.†   (source)
  • For almost any other vocation or avocation—singer, potter, zookeeper, any doctor apart from a surgeon—it wouldn't have mattered.†   (source)
  • But medicine has always been a vocation for me, and those long hours in that hospital were priceless to the doctor I hoped one day to be.†   (source)
  • When two or three such persons were gathered together at our servants' hall - I mean of the calibre of, say, Mr Graham, with whom now, sadly, I seem to have lost touch - we would have some of the most stimulating and intelligent debates on every aspect of our vocation.†   (source)
  • He was a skilled storyteller and his vocation offered a deep resource for some hilarious tales.†   (source)
  • Having my vocation keeps me busy.†   (source)
  • His two sisters, despite their natural inclinations and festive vocation, were fodder for the convent.†   (source)
  • And, nearly a full-time vocation in itself, work raising Marley.†   (source)
  • He'd come to his vocation as if driven ineluctably; he had never formed the intention of being sheriff, yet, to his astonishment, here he was.†   (source)
  • Prohibition, gambling and their related vocations were so obviously practiced that it was hard for me to believe that they were against the law.†   (source)
  • He has said, about National Highway 3, "I'd rather we have a fixed road and a hundred thousand extra patients a year, because it's our vocation to receive them."†   (source)
  • He studied construction as his vocation and in November 2008 graduated with his high school diploma.†   (source)
  • I hate to see him miss his vocation.†   (source)
  • Some were asked to speak on the relevance of the professional clergy to the religious vocation.†   (source)
  • He despised her spirit of sacrifice, her severity, her vocation for poverty, and her unshakable chastity, which he felt as a reproach toward his own egotistical, sensual, power-hungry nature.†   (source)
  • No one, not even Nately, seemed really to appreciate that he, Chaplain Robert Oliver Shipman, was not just a chaplain but a human being, that he could have a charming, passionate, pretty wife whom he loved almost insanely and three small blue-eyed children with strange, forgotten faces who would grow up someday to regard him as a freak and who might never forgive him for all the social embarrassment his vocation would cause them.†   (source)
  • Protecting's always been my vocation."†   (source)
  • I was an artist by vocation, and now by avocation—although it's been considerably more challenging to get my supplies in a place like this.†   (source)
  • Monterrey was a city devoid of material comforts, so it was good that he had chosen a vocation that rewarded austerity.†   (source)
  • For Adams it was as if he had found a vocation again.†   (source)
  • I thought then of all that the Musalman doctors might have discovered since it was written, and suddenly it seemed to me that I had been brought to this sunlit city so that I might learn more of the craft that had become my vocation.†   (source)
  • "Bienvenida, hujja," La Madrina beckons in a voice hoarse with a vocation to the unfortunate.†   (source)
  • Your vocation will soon be obsolete, I think.†   (source)
  • Soon after I was struck down and raised up again, a priest came to the school looking for vocations.†   (source)
  • A vocation.†   (source)
  • My father would not have believed in the possibility of sub-rosa vocations.†   (source)
  • I know, intelligent criticism cannot be 'wrong,' but I was wrong to submit to the tyranny by which critics of art live, and to follow the road that they follow, because, to maintain their society and vocation, they parse by intellect alone works that are great solely because of the spirit.†   (source)
  • That was years ago and for several years the cabbie had experimented, and had found his true vocation.†   (source)
  • From his point of view this assumption provided an adequate explanation for most of my otherwise inexplicable activities, and it is just possible — though I hesitate to attribute any such selfish motives to Ootek — that by associating with me he hoped to enlarge his own knowledge of the esoteric practices of his vocation.†   (source)
  • His need for a more challenging vocation was fulfilled when in the mid-1930s he met an old friend from the early days in the Bruderschaft, Heinrich Himmler, who easily persuaded Hoss to abandon the plow and the hoe and to sample those gratifications that the SS might offer.†   (source)
  • The major criterion left untested is one we cannot test here; that undefinable something which is the difference between a leader in battle …. and one who merely has the earmarks but not the vocation.†   (source)
  • He thought that art was no more a vocation than innate cheerfulness or melancholy was a profession.†   (source)
  • But you'll never become a rhinoceros, really you won't …. you haven't got the vocation!†   (source)
  • I explained how sure I was of my vocation, that I had prayed to the Blessed Virgin to make me sure, and to find me worthy.†   (source)
  • I might get an optimal vocation assignment if I can impress the Officials enough.†   (source)
  • Even if Xander gets his vocation first, we're still Matched, I remind myself.†   (source)
  • Then some of the personnel from this area can be spared for another vocation.†   (source)
  • What if he moves on soon to his vocation and leaves me behind?†   (source)
  • Of course, everyone is fighting to get you assigned to their department for your vocation.†   (source)
  • That's the group that gets the new vocation.†   (source)
  • But we would like to free up more of the workers for other projects and vocations.†   (source)
  • He knows our play probably influences what vocations they assign us.†   (source)
  • This happens, as you get closer to your work assignments and vocations.†   (source)
  • Jaime practiced his profession with the vocation of a true apostle.†   (source)
  • But Felicia would not be dissuaded from the orishas She had a true vocation to the supernatural.†   (source)
  • I do not know whether he has taken up a vocation or an art to pass the solemnity of the hours.†   (source)
  • It's the job that showed her she could have a vocation.†   (source)
  • It has always been so, un droit de la vocation—and necessary.†   (source)
  • Simon doesn't consider himself an authority in this area, but he would have failed in his duty to his vocation if he'd refused to profit by the opportunities Europe afforded — opportunities which were by no means so available, nor so various, in New England.†   (source)
  • His mother had spoken of him as a great man with no commercial vocation, who had at last gone into the river business because his older brother had been a very close collaborator of the German commodore Johann B. Elbers, the father of river navigation.†   (source)
  • In the end, after some consideration, I said: "As far as I am concerned, Miss Kenton, my vocation will not be fulfilled until I have done all I can to see' his lordship through the great tasks he has set himself.†   (source)
  • "I began the pursuit of my vocation as a member of the Established Church," says Reverend Verringer, "but then had a crisis of conscience.†   (source)
  • And of course, any butler who regards his vocation with pride, any butler who aspires at all to a 'dignity in keeping with his position', as the Hayes Society once put it, should never allow himself to be 'off duty' in the presence of others.†   (source)
  • For despite her austere conduct and penitential habit, Aunt Escolastica had an instinct for life and a vocation for complicity, which were her greatest virtues, and the mere idea that a man was interested in her niece awakened an irresistible emotion in her.†   (source)
  • And let me tell you, if you were to have come into our servants' hall on any of those evenings, you would not have heard mere gossip; more likely, you would have witnessed debates over the great affairs preoccupying our employers upstairs, or else over matters of import reported in the newspapers; and of course, as fellow professionals from all walks of life are wont to do when gathered together, we could be found discussing every aspect of our vocation.†   (source)
  • He had four sons and a daughter, and he wanted to prepare all of them as heirs to his empire, but by a series of coincidences that were common in the novels of the day, but that no one believed in real life, his four sons died, one after the other, as they rose to positions of authority, and his daughter had no river vocation whatsoever and preferred to die watching the boats on the Hudson from a window fifty meters high.†   (source)
  • He seems worried for Fin, and he's not supposed to say too much about his job to others who don't share his vocation.†   (source)
  • My mother likely knows most of them, but I won't ever have that kind of specialized knowledge unless working in the Arboretum becomes my vocation.†   (source)
  • Piper has her vocation!†   (source)
  • A good vocation.†   (source)
  • This means that they may be considering me for one of the more interesting sorting-related vocations.†   (source)
  • Lower-level vocations in nutrition disposal are particularly dangerous, even with all the precautions we take.†   (source)
  • Her parents managed to send her to Wellesley College, where she would have been in the class of 1960, but once she discovered her vocation, she transferred to the Catholic school Manhattanville.†   (source)
  • I say, thinking and meaning for the far future, his schooling and training and vocation, what shall remain after I am gone.†   (source)
  • Only six months later did Aureliano learn that the doctor had given up on him as a man of action because he was a sentimental person with no future, with a passive character, and a definite solitary vocation.†   (source)
  • The nature of his vocation, with its long hours indoors and his being fully garbed, contributed to his being relatively fair-skinned for a Mexican.†   (source)
  • My early years as a naturalist were free and fascinating, but as I entered manhood and found that my avocation must now become my vocation, the walls began to close in.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, when Ursula realized that she had not had enough time to consolidate the vocation of Jose Arcadio, she let herself be disturbed by consternation.†   (source)
  • She would choose her kind of devotion; she would bear children and do her necessary work, a true vocation, and she would grow old as I have grown old, though she would look backward with a different cast than mine, a different afterlight.†   (source)
  • She was a clean young mulatto woman with yellow almond-shaped eyes that gave her face the ferocity of a panther, but she had a generous heart and a magnificent vocation for love.†   (source)
  • Blanca led the idle life that was her true vocation, while her husband gave himself to those small pleasures that only money can buy and that he had denied himself for such a long time.†   (source)
  • She really did am have any definite vocation, but she had earned the highest grades by means of inflexible discipline simply in order not to annoy her mother.†   (source)
  • Dennis Hoagland and his private firm had conveniently appeared at the right time, offering the perfect vocation for the person I was, someone who could reside in his one place and take half-steps out whenever he wished.†   (source)
  • She was one of those people who are born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengeance, and for the most sublime forms of heroism, but she was unable to shape her fate to the dimensions of her amorous vocation, so it was lived out as something flat and gray trapped between her mother's sickroom walls, wretched tenements, and the tortured confessions with which this large, opulent, hot-blooded woman—made for maternity, abundance, action, and…†   (source)
  • He was a full-blooded Indian, untamed, illiterate, and endowed with quiet wiles and a messianic vocation that aroused a demented fanaticism in his men.†   (source)
  • Unlike Aureliano Jose who tried to drown that image in the bloody bog of war, he tried to keep it alive in the sink of concupiscence while he entertained his mother with the endless fable of his pontifical vocation.†   (source)
  • It was obvious that she liked the house, that she spent the whole year dreaming about the excitement of the young people her arrival brought around, and that she was not far removed from the festive vocation and hospitable excesses of her father.†   (source)
  • She surrendered to Mauricio Babilonia, without resistance, without shyness, without formalities, and with a vocation that was so fluid and an intuition that was so wise that a more suspicious man than hers would have confused them with obvious experience.†   (source)
  • …that Amaranta Ursula was continuing with her repairs so that her hands would not be idle, he decided to assemble the handsome bicycle, on which the front wheel was much larger than the rear one, and he dedicated himself to the capture and curing of every native insect he could find in the region, which he sent in jam jars to his former professor of natural history at the University of Liege where he had done advanced work in entomology, although his main vocation was that of aviator.†   (source)
  • Pushkin and Chekhov, right up to the end of their lives, were absorbed in the current, specific tasks imposed on them by their vocation as writers, and in the course of fulfilling these tasks they lived their lives, quietly, treating both their lives and their work as private, individual matters, of no concern to anyone else.†   (source)
  • I was not an editor, but a writer—a writer with the same ardor and the soaring wings of the Melville or the Flaubert or the Tolstoy or the Fitzgerald who had the power to rip my heart out and keep a part of it and who each night, separately and together, were summoning me to their incomparable vocation.†   (source)
  • He went there, chose that as his vocation, with that as his purpose.†   (source)
  • Few teachers had the true vocation for their work.†   (source)
  • … And at the same time pursued my other vocation.†   (source)
  • If his wife was to be trusted, he had given signs of his vocation at a very early age.†   (source)
  • We often say he's missed his vocation and ought to have been on the stage.'†   (source)
  • My sister was a learned woman, who had a vocation to pursue religious studies.†   (source)
  • The laws say that men may not write unless the Council of Vocations bid them so.†   (source)
  • Bridey thinks he has a vocation and hasn't.†   (source)
  • But it's a fact one doesn't come across many of them, and anyhow it must be a hard vocation.†   (source)
  • The Council of Vocations came on the first day of spring, and they sat in the great hall.†   (source)
  • Mallinson, for instance, was engaged to a girl in England; Barnard might be married; Miss Brinklow had her work, vocation, or however she might regard it.†   (source)
  • During supper, his host asked the Bishop flatly if he considered celibacy an essential condition of the priest's vocation.†   (source)
  • His ideal is a man who, having worked all day for the good of posterity (if that is his vocation), washes his mind of the whole subject, commits the issue to Heaven, and returns at once to the patience or gratitude demanded by the moment that is passing over him.†   (source)
  • I hope I've got a vocation."†   (source)
  • By the help of a colleague, displacements took place-a certain number of people grudgingly sighed and betook themselves to their ordinary vocations, and almost immediately other persons came along and took up their stand to gaze their fill on the spot where murder had been committed.†   (source)
  • The king—prejudiced in favorof the royal vocation—provided his son with three palaces and forty thousand dancing girls to keep his mind attached to the world.†   (source)
  • Roger missed his real vocation.†   (source)
  • It had been a happy childhood, except that he had been afraid of too many things, and had hated poverty like a crime; he had believed that when he was a priest he would be rich and proud - that was called having a vocation.†   (source)
  • …of which we all hoped for, had no doubt of) as the man he would be and the economic power he would represent when his mother passed on, was rooted; and he listening behind that expression, saying, 'Then you don't recommend the law as a vocation?' and now for just a moment the lawyer would stop, but not long; maybe not long enough or perceptible enough for you to call it pause: and he would be looking at Bon too: 'It hadn't occurred to me that the law might appeal to you' and Bon:…†   (source)
  • He still looked out--a thin, vaguely untidy man with still upon him something yet of the undimmed glow of his calling, his vocation--quietly surrounding and enclosing and guarding his urgent heart, thinking quietly how surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own.†   (source)
  • Just as the traditional rites of passage used to teach the individual to die to the past and be reborn to the future, so the great ceremonials of investiture divested him of his private character and clothed him in the mantle of his vocation.†   (source)
  • He was fond of music and the arts, had a special aptitude for languages, and before he was sure of his vocation he had tasted all the familiar pleasures of the world.†   (source)
  • He couldn't have slept for more than a few seconds because the woman was still talking about the vocation the nuns had refused to recognize.†   (source)
  • The traditional idea of initiation combines an introduction of the candidate into the techniques, duties, and prerogatives of his vocation with a radical readjustment of his emotional relationship to the parental images.†   (source)
  • If you haven't a vocation it's no good however much you want to be; and if you have a vocation, you can't get away from it, however much you hate it.†   (source)
  • But we do not congratulate a schoolmaster on teaching that two and two make four, though we may, perhaps, congratulate him on having chosen his laudable vocation.†   (source)
  • And you never had a vocation?†   (source)
  • The first great stage, that of the separation or departure, will be shown in Part I, Chapter I, in five subsections: 1 "The Call to Adventure," or the signs of the vocation of the hero 2 "Refusal of the Call," or the folly of the flight from the god 3 "Supernatural Aid," the unsuspected assistance that comes to one who has undertaken his proper adventure 4 "The Crossing of the First Threshold" 5 "The Belly of the Whale," or the passage into the realm of night The stage of the trials…†   (source)
  • They will explain it to the Council of Vocations, and we shall be assigned to the Home of the Scholars.†   (source)
  • And the Council of Vocations sat on a high dais, and they had but two words to speak to each of the Students.†   (source)
  • So we awaited our turn in the great hall and then we heard the Council of Vocations call our name: "Equality 7-2521."†   (source)
  • For the Council of Vocations knows in its great wisdom where you are needed by your brother men, better than you can know it in your unworthy little minds.†   (source)
  • And we were punished when the Council of Vocations came to give us our life Mandates which tell those who reach their fifteenth year what their work is to be for the rest of their days.†   (source)
  • I should never dream of thwarting the artistic vocation of a child; nor Vinteuil either, it seems.†   (source)
  • What a man's vocation happened to be was really a serious matter to a woman.†   (source)
  • —Have you ever felt that you had a vocation?†   (source)
  • But I'll have lots of spare time in the long winter evenings, and I've no vocation for fancy work.†   (source)
  • Everyone was incredulous when it was reported that he had a vocation for the priesthood.†   (source)
  • "But it's no good my being ordained if I haven't a real vocation, is it?'†   (source)
  • Heaven knows what sort of a vocation that could be.†   (source)
  • So he insisted not in his vocation here.†   (source)
  • That kind of thing, with him, was evidently a vocation.†   (source)
  • Yes, of course; and no doubt when it's your vocation—.†   (source)
  • ] Well, that is his vocation in life—or part of it at any rate.†   (source)
  • If Poetry be your vocation, Let Poetry your will obey!†   (source)
  • 'And your vocation, Gowan, may really demand this suit and service.†   (source)
  • Betty's vocation led her to think eating the most important thing in life.†   (source)
  • Our gracious sovereign recognizes his high vocation and will be true to it.†   (source)
  • He has taught me so much, so much about the vocation of woman.†   (source)
  • Their vocation has not been recognized by their families, but the world has done it justice.†   (source)
  • "The vocation will fit you to a hair," I thought: "much good may it do you!"†   (source)
  • Never; I follow no other than my own high vocation, which is instruction in sacred music!†   (source)
  • He answered, to go to sea again, in his old vocation.†   (source)
  • At the present moment I feel a magnificent vocation for that profession.†   (source)
  • It is not from friendship at all; I simply feel that the army is my vocation.†   (source)
  • "Sluggard"--why, it is a calling and vocation, it is a career.†   (source)
  • One fitted to my purpose, you mean — fitted to my vocation.†   (source)
  • My vocation commands me; it carries me away.†   (source)
  • The moral wretchedness of Thenardier, the bourgeois who had missed his vocation, was irremediable.†   (source)
  • He has not that positive interest in it which makes it his vocation.†   (source)
  • I believe devoutly in a natural difference of vocation.†   (source)
  • "The poor wretch," said De Bracy, "is resolved to die in his vocation.†   (source)
  • "I am not fit for it: I have no vocation," I said.†   (source)
  • My vocation is to be happy with another kind of happiness, the happiness of love and self-sacrifice.†   (source)
  • I wonder what your vocation will turn out to be: perhaps you will be a poet?†   (source)
  • "My vocation is a different one," thought Princess Mary.†   (source)
  • He says that he could turn his mind to doing his best in that vocation, on one condition.†   (source)
  • He longed to hint to her that not here lay her vocation; that a woman's power and charm reside in mystery, not in muscular rant.†   (source)
  • The living had belonged to the family for generations; but Jim was one of five sons, and when after a course of light holiday literature his vocation for the sea had declared itself, he was sent at once to a 'training-ship for officers of the mercantile marine.'†   (source)
  • What with women and wine and the excitement of his vocation, a man could afford to rest now and then.†   (source)
  • Farming, either in the Colonies, America, or at home—farming, at any rate, after becoming well qualified for the business by a careful apprenticeship—that was a vocation which would probably afford an independence without the sacrifice of what he valued even more than a competency—intellectual liberty.†   (source)
  • He had won a place among Edwards's following not only because the young actor, who could not afford to employ a dresser, often found him useful, but because he recognized in Paul something akin to what churchmen term "vocation."†   (source)
  • But she had frequently told me that she had no vocation; it just simply wasn't there—the desire to become a nun.†   (source)
  • "Isn't marriage your vocation?†   (source)
  • But listen here, professor—it seems to me he would have no reason, then, for criticizing any fanaticism or terrorism in my cousin's vocation.†   (source)
  • That the ravings of the sick were the secrets of God, and that if a nurse through her vocation should hear them, she should respect her trust.†   (source)
  • Having taught for some two years in London, though she had abandoned that vocation of late, Miss Bridehead was not exactly a novice, and Phillotson thought there would be no difficulty in retaining her services, which he already wished to do, though she had only been with him three or four weeks.†   (source)
  • The Shipmaster was one of those worthy mortals found in every vocation, even the humbler ones—the sort of person whom everybody agrees in calling "a respectable man."†   (source)
  • She evidently wrote with anxiety, and told very little about her own doings, more than that she had passed some sort of examination for a Queen's Scholarship, and was going to enter a training college at Melchester to complete herself for the vocation she had chosen, partly by his influence.†   (source)
  • But you must be quite sure, Stephen, that you have a vocation because it would be terrible if you found afterwards that you had none.†   (source)
  • Their vocation bringing them into peculiar contact with so many human beings, and sometimes in their least guarded hour, in interviews very much more confidential than those of physician and patient; this would seem to qualify them to know something about those intricacies involved in the question of moral responsibility; whether in a given case, say, the crime proceeded from mania in the brain or rabies of the heart.†   (source)
  • A vocation—that should attract me?†   (source)
  • To my thinking it is their duty to be controlled, because that's their vocation, and there is nothing humiliating in it for them.†   (source)
  • Their vocation, too, is gone.†   (source)
  • "Well, ye see, neighbours, I was lately married to a woman, and she's my vocation now, and so ye see—"†   (source)
  • What a misfortune it is you did not follow your first vocation; what a delicious abbe you would have made!†   (source)
  • 'He may have done a little in all these vocations, Mr. Lockwood; but I couldn't give my word for any.†   (source)
  • Three seconds after reading this letter from the honorable Secretary of the Navy, I understood at last that my true vocation, my sole purpose in life, was to hunt down this disturbing monster and rid the world of it.†   (source)
  • The traveller with the cart was a reddleman—a person whose vocation it was to supply farmers with redding for their sheep.†   (source)
  • I know not whether he had hoped for a little more resistance for the sake of a little more entertainment; but he said to himself, as he had said before, that though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity was, after all, not an exciting vocation.†   (source)
  • But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is babble, that is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve?†   (source)
  • "One may easily be led into error in basing any conclusion on the general vocation of a people," said Metrov, interrupting Levin.†   (source)
  • A stain on his conscience, as to anything that came within the range of his vocation, would trouble such a man very much in the same way, though to a far greater degree, than an error in the balance of an account, or an ink-blot on the fair page of a book of record.†   (source)
  • Having some foundation for believing, by this time, that nature and accident had made me an author, I pursued my vocation with confidence.†   (source)
  • In fact, Sam considered oratory as his vocation, and never let slip an opportunity of magnifying his office.†   (source)
  • He felt decidedly repelled from such a vocation, and he imagined—perhaps he was mistaken—that the fair ones of Salt Lake City cast rather alarming glances on his person.†   (source)
  • In the early years of this century, such a linen-weaver, named Silas Marner, worked at his vocation in a stone cottage that stood among the nutty hedgerows near the village of Raveloe, and not far from the edge of a deserted stone-pit.†   (source)
  • Methinks, as they require a confessor to be sent, this holy hermit might at once exercise his pious vocation, and procure us the information we desire.†   (source)
  • Is selfishness a necessary ingredient in the composition of that passion called love, or does it deserve all the fine things which poets, in the exercise of their undoubted vocation, have said of it?†   (source)
  • Each individual of the automatic community forthwith set to work, according to his or her proper vocation: the monkey, taking off his Highland bonnet, bowed and scraped to the by-standers most obsequiously, with ever an observant eye to pick up a stray cent; and the young foreigner himself, as he turned the crank of his machine, glanced upward to the arched window, expectant of a presence that would make his music the livelier and sweeter.†   (source)
  • REACTIONARY SOCIALISM A. Feudal Socialism Owing to their historical position, it became the vocation of the aristocracies of France and England to write pamphlets against modern bourgeois society.†   (source)
  • In addition to his other vocations, he was the singing-master of the neighborhood, and picked up many bright shillings by instructing the young folks in psalmody.†   (source)
  • It is a splendid vocation you have chosen—to smooth the way for the march of unappreciated truths, and new and courageous lines of thought.†   (source)
  • Who knows how easy it is for ambition to call itself vocation? in good faith, perchance, and deceiving itself, devotee that it is.†   (source)
  • She had no vocation for struggling with combinations; in the solemnity of sequestration there was something that overwhelmed her.†   (source)
  • Still, there was great uncertainty which of these vocations the youth was best endowed to fill; but, having no other employment, the stripling was constantly lounging about the homestead," munching green apples and hunting for sorrel; when the same sagacious eye that had brought to light his latent talents seized upon this circumstance as a clew to his future path through the turmoils of the world.†   (source)
  • Her resources were of the obvious kind; but even if one had not the journalistic talent and a genius for guessing, as Henrietta said, what the public was going to want, one was not therefore to conclude that one had no vocation, no beneficent aptitude of any sort, and resign one's self to being frivolous and hollow.†   (source)
  • Certainly I could, if I held it the highest vocation of the novelist to represent things as they never have been and never will be.†   (source)
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