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put a premium upon life of
Indeed, the conditions appear to be such as to put a premium upon life of a high order.
— from Mars and Its Canals by Percival Lowell

placed all paleontologists under lasting obligations
“I hope you will not feel that you are under any personal obligations whatever, because this slight service is simply laid upon me by the necessities of 281 the case, i. e., by the fact that your whole life and work have placed all paleontologists under lasting obligations to you.”
— from The Life of a Fossil Hunter by Charles H. (Charles Hazelius) Sternberg

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