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respect equal but is deficient

I find an esteem for him immediately to arise in me: His company is a satisfaction to me; and before I have any farther acquaintance with him, I would rather do him a service than another, whose character is in every other respect equal, but is deficient in that particular.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Russia excellent books I dare

You thirsted, while in Switzerland, for your home-country, for Russia; you read, doubtless, many books about Russia, excellent books, I dare say, but hurtful to you ; and you arrived here; as it were, on fire with the longing to be of service.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

reveal everything but I did

It was hard to resist the impulse to burst out with exultation and reveal everything; but I did resist.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

replied Emily but it does

"Yes," replied Emily; "but it does not follow that to be ladylike it is necessary to be fashionable.
— from Amy Herbert by Elizabeth Missing Sewell

recent editors but I do

§ 143. and of one , &c. I have followed the general consensus of recent editors; but I do not feel at all sure that the antecedent of [Greek: us] is not [Greek: polemos].
— from The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 by Demosthenes

right enough but is digestion

"Oh, 'e went to the War right enough; but 'is digestion's that bad.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 24, 1917 by Various

right enough but I don

"I can all right enough, but I don't know that I will .
— from Bert Lloyd's Boyhood: A Story from Nova Scotia by J. Macdonald (James Macdonald) Oxley

remain empty because its doors

My house, I now see, was built to remain empty, because its doors cannot open.
— from The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore

raced em but I didn

“I raced ’em, but I didn’t beat ’em!” “Couldn’t you?” “Couldn’t I?
— from The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay; or, The Secret of the Red Oar by Margaret Penrose

retired enough but I don

'I should think it was retired enough; but I don't see what you want to get off so alone for; it is lonely enough, I should think, all over these old barrens.
— from I've Been Thinking; or, the Secret of Success by A. S. (Azel Stevens) Roe

remarkable evening but I don

But for the phrase, "I've had a remarkable evening, but I don't think I want to talk about it," Barbara might simply be tired.
— from Lady Lilith by Stephen McKenna

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