"The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all."
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"Be careful what you ask of Heaven; it might be granted."
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"Pardon is granted to necessity."
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"If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers."
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"There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth."
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"I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also."
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"It must be granted that in every syllogism, considered as an argument to prove the conclusion, there is a petitio principii. When we say, All men are mortal Socrates is a man therefore Socrates is mortal; it is unanswerably urged by the adversaries of the syllogistic theory, that the proposition, Socrates is mortal."
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"I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be."
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"So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped."
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