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SIN OF OMISSION: Any sin that you forgot to commit.
Sins repeated seem permitted.
Sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passpo
whereas virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers....
SIP: Store Indefinite Precisio
Sir -- a couple of brief points. Firstly, you're not a qualified service engineer, and consequently, sawing me in two will invalidate my guarantee.
Secondly, I wouldn't trust you to open a sardine c...
Sir Amice Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say, "Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner.
-- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Apothegms, No, 76...
Sir, am I to understand that you sell dead, fried birds here?
Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs.
It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all. -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)...
SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave.
Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappoi...
SIREN Originally a sea-nymph whose songs lured sailors to their death, a siren is now a loud wailing noise that goes off all the time and that everyone ignores because they hope its only a test.

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