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Because everyone else does it scarcely
[131] Because everyone else does it scarcely seems a reason why you must do it.
— from The Labour-saving House by Peel, C. S., Mrs.

be ever equally disposed inwardly so
It is a sacrifice, which though friends need not, friendship doth; which hath in it so much divinity, that as we must be ever equally disposed inwardly so to doe or suffer for it, so we must sepose some certain times for the outward service thereof, though it be but formall and testimoniall: that time to me towards you is Tuesday, and my Temple, the Rose in Smith-field.
— from Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by John Donne

but every extra day I spend
No, I have had my lesson, but every extra day I spend here only does me harm.
— from The Light Shines in Darkness by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

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