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be run off with every detail
The machine can be turned quite quickly, so that a year's tides can be run off with every detail in about half-an-hour.
— from Pioneers of Science by Lodge, Oliver, Sir

but real ones with enemies danger
If you really want to be free and happy, you must have other exercises than these; your training must be a genuine martial one; no toy contests with friends, but real ones with enemies; danger must be an element in your character- development.
— from The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 by of Samosata Lucian

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