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nicety of scruple except as regards the
In such matters he was indifferent, reckless, and heedless of any nicety of scruple, except as regards the public.
— from Lord Chatham, His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of

not offer so effectual a resistance to
We see then the reason that a hard substance of moderate thickness does not offer so effectual a resistance to a body moving very rapidly as some substance of a more yielding kind and of greater bulk.
— from Science for the School and Family, Part I. Natural Philosophy by Worthington Hooker

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