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pendant longtemps mais son pourcentage
Le papier sera encore utilisé pendant longtemps, mais son pourcentage par rapport à l'information électronique continuera de baisser.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

probably lack mountains says Professor
“Although the deeper sea-floors probably lack mountains,” says Professor Shaler, “they are not without striking reliefs, which, if they could be seen, would present all the dignity which their size gives to the Himalayas or Andes: the difference is that these elevations are not true mountains, but volcanic peaks, sometimes isolated, again accumulated in long, narrow ridges, but all made up of matter poured out from the craters or through great fissures in the crust.
— from The Book of the Ocean by Ernest Ingersoll

person like Mr St Paul
"I think Lady Limpenny is a more creditable ally than a person like Mr. St. Paul.
— from The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. by Various

peccato licet mori sine peccato
Etiamsi hic non vivatur sine peccato, licet mori sine peccato, dum subinde veniâ deletur, quod subinde ignorantiâ vel infirmitate committitur .”
— from Grace, Actual and Habitual: A Dogmatic Treatise by Joseph Pohle


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