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laws obeyed and did emphatically not
He was only desirous to see the Constitution and laws obeyed, and did, emphatically, not believe in the so-called “Higher Law.”
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 2 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

live on a difference exceedingly narrow
Competition reduces the rate which the bill-broker can charge, and raises the rate which the bill-broker must give, so that he has to live on a difference exceedingly narrow.
— from Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market by Walter Bagehot

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