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always great risk in using means
In cases of long-continued discharge, it is generally impossible to ascertain from what depth the matter comes, and there is always great risk in using means to arrest its flow.
— from Elements of Surgery by Robert Liston

a general rule impose upon men
It would indeed be a doctrine destructive of all order, and of the very machinery of society, that would, as a general rule, impose upon men of profession, or of trade, the responsibilities which lie, in the first instance, upon the consciences of their clients.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various

a great room is unconfined motion
The chief convenience of a great room, is unconfined motion.
— from Elements of Criticism, Volume III. by Kames, Henry Home, Lord

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