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under circumstances

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The following pages contain the result of my labours. They have been composed under circumstances particularly unfavourable to literary pursuits; and such as those only can duly appreciate, who are aware of the numerous and anxious duties, which a country practitioner is called upon to perform. Gideon Mantell

I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man. Chuck Robb

Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, given, and transmitted from the past. Karl Marx

The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was. Eleanor Roosevelt

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