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believe let us do externally
I know that doubts are entertained about this, but since to doubt is harder for them than to believe, let us do externally as the laws enjoin, and internally let us be more holy and pure and chaste.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

be like unto deities even
Henceforth Pir-napishtim and his wife will be like unto deities, even us.
— from Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Donald A. (Donald Alexander) Mackenzie

boys let us drive em
“Come on, boys, let us drive ’em back!
— from The Campaign of the Jungle; Or, Under Lawton through Luzon by Edward Stratemeyer

but little under domestication except
They vary but little under domestication, except in sometimes being white or piebald.
— from The Ornithology of Shakespeare Critically examined, explained and illustrated by James Edmund Harting

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