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cheap as reading nor any pleasure so
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

circumstances a really natural and proper swing
In such circumstances a really natural and proper swing is rarely accomplished, and, before the golfer is aware of the frightful injustice he has done himself, his future prospects will probably have been damaged.
— from The Complete Golfer by Harry Vardon

chapel a remarkably neat and plain structure
Annexed to the latter edifice is the chapel, a remarkably neat and plain structure.
— from Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Benjamin Moore Norman


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