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company and delivered messages in a neighborhood
For a while he was a messenger for a telegraph company and delivered messages in a neighborhood sprinkled with houses of prostitution.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

culture and developed moral ideas are necessary
In respect of modality, the judgments concerning the sublime are as necessarily valid, as those for the beautiful; only with this difference, that our judgment of the sublime finds an entrance to some minds, with greater difficulty than our judgment of the beautiful, since to perceive the sublime, culture, and developed moral ideas, are necessary.
— from A History of Philosophy in Epitome by Albert Schwegler

confessions and during Mass I am not
"No," I replied, "they knelt there during the confessions, and during Mass. I am not excusing them, but did you ever hear of the ancient penance of wearing peas in pilgrims' shoes?
— from My New Curate by Patrick Augustine Sheehan

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