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I never knew I never guessed
[Pg 262] I never knew, I never guessed until long after you had come into my life, and gone away again, how much I owed to you.
— from Prisoners: Fast Bound In Misery And Iron by Mary Cholmondeley

is not kind is not good
In medicine, at least with the dog, that which is not kind is not good.
— from The Dog by W. N. (William Nelson) Hutchinson

it neither kill it nor give
He can neither teach nor guide it, neither kill it nor give it life, neither bind nor loose, neither judge nor sentence, neither hold nor let alone; which necessarily would exist had he authority so to do, for they are under his jurisdiction and power.
— from Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore) Dau


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