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dispensed

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of Dispense

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Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. Albert Camus

I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance. Franz Kafka

All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors. John Calvin

He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden. F. Scott Fitzgerald

Emotion, feeling - these are well enough if they feed the springs of power. Prayer, praise, preaching - these are all good and never to be dispensed with; but if the life to which they minister have no manifestation out of them, it is a failure. Josiah Gilbert Holland

The ring of gold is never so red that it is not dispensed with for breads. Swedish Proverb

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