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fully expected you last year
I fully expected you last year, and was very much disappointed that you could not realize your intention.
— from Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence by Louis Agassiz

find even your light yoke
I give you my liberty; for a time give me forbearance in return, and though wed in haste woo me slowly, lest this sore heart of mine find even your light yoke heavy.
— from Pauline's Passion and Punishment by Louisa May Alcott

For everything you lose you
As Parpon the dwarf said—you remember him, a wise little man, that Parpon—as he said one day, 'For everything you lose you get something, if only how to laugh at yourself.”
— from The Lane That Had No Turning, Complete by Gilbert Parker

fortune earn your living you
So, Miss Janet, you have come down to seek your fortune, earn your living, you say.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

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