affording

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of Afford

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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. Percy Bysshe Shelley

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off. Rita Mae Brown

14. A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike. Woodrow Wilson

Debating clubs among boys are very useful, not only as affording pleasant meetings and interesting discussions, but also as serving for training grounds for developing the knowledge and the qualities that are needed in public life. Annie Besant

[Happiness is] The exercise of vital powers, along lines of excellence, in a life affording them scope. Edith Hamilton

One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection. Nassau William Senior