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For I am proverb'd with a grandsire phrase. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Romeo and Juliet -- Act i, Sc.
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For I dipt into the future, Far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, And all the wonder that would be.
-- Tennyso...
For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world knows.
-- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part iii, Sect....
For iii may keep a counsel if twain be away.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Ten Commandments of Love...
For I lean on no dead kin, my name in mine for fame or scorn And the world began when I was born and the world is mine to win.
-- Badger Clark...
For I'm not so old, and not so plain, And I'm quite prepared to marry again.
-- Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (& Sullivan)...
For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), As You Like It -- Act ii, Sc. 3...
For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere. -- Sherida
For instance, several years ago we tracked down a twelve-year-old girl who was going to have an abortion so that we could talk her out of it.
Talking a woman out of having an abortion is not news....
For insurance purposes, an act of God is defined as something which no reasonable person could possibly have anticipated.
In this same sense, Catholic theologians speak of the creation of humanity a...

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