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senseless person you resemble one
If to an ignorant or wicked or senseless person, you resemble one who should say to a person in a fever or delirium, "Be unknown.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

sound palatable yet raw oysters
Raw fish at the first blush does not sound palatable, yet raw oysters appeal.
— from The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron

still possess your right of
In short, to-day you still possess your right of feeling, while I, I have no longer any liberty of heart, which I think precious to exercise in love, even though the love itself may be eternal.
— from Beatrix by HonorĂ© de Balzac

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