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pause is necessary to enable roads
To attempt an advance northwards, from spur to spur, is tedious work; after a comparatively short push a pause is necessary to enable roads to be constructed for bringing forward guns and supplies.
— from With the British Army in The Holy Land by H. O. (Henry Osmond) Lock

philosophy is none too easy reading
Printed philosophy is none too easy reading.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

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