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bit o sport though I never got
I love a bit o’ sport, though I never got no farther at home than rats.”
— from Fix Bay'nets: The Regiment in the Hills by George Manville Fenn

be objective since there is no ground
Schopenhauer is also justified in stating that Kant, though starting from the dualistic Cartesian standpoint, so far modified it as to conclude that the origin of this manifold must be “ objective, since there is no ground for regarding it as subjective ” ( Parerga und Paralipomena , 1851 ed., p. 74 ff.).
— from A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Norman Kemp Smith

by one so that I never got
There were plenty of them behind the wainscot in our large London house; but the cat would eat them one by one, so that I never got a chance of keeping one to myself.
— from Lady Daisy, and Other Stories by Caroline Stewart

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