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most infatuated fondness for excessive dissipation
Nature had endowed him with extraordinary talents; but a most infatuated fondness for excessive dissipation obscured the brightest faculties of his mind, and perverted many of the excellent qualities of the heart.
— from Solitude With the Life of the Author. In Two Parts by Johann Georg Zimmermann

makes it fair for everybody declared
"That makes it fair for everybody," declared Percival.
— from The Hilltop Boys on the River by Cyril Burleigh

most incorrigible Fops For ever doomed
Who, but the most incorrigible Fops, For ever doomed in dismal Cells, call’d Shops, To cheat and damn themselves to get their Livings, Wou’d lay sweet Money out in Sham-Thanksgivings?
— from The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Aphra Behn

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