"Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading"
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"I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it."
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"We have to permit go with the everyday living we had prepared so as to have the lifetime that's watching for us"
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"Drop dead-but first get permit"
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"In His boundless love God permits the atheist to live."
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"A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so will it be the latest, of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest."
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"Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no."
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"You owe it to yourself not to permit your emotions to place your happiness in the keeping of another person."
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"The wit of man has devised cruel statutes, And nature oft permits what is by law forbid."
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"I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation"
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"It should've been illegal for a man to walk around like that without some sort of permit."
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