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Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
-- John Tillotso...
Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do ingloriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength.
Let her and Falsehood grap...
Though an angel should write, still 't is devils must print.
-- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- The Fudges in England, Letter iii...
Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.
-- The Tao of Programming...
Though chaunge be no robbry. -- John Heywood (c. 1565) -- Proverbes, Part ii, Chap. iv
Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile.
-- Reginald Heber (1783-1826) -- Missionary Hym...
Though fraud in other activities be detestable, in the management of war it is laudable and glorious, and he who overcomes an enemy by fraud is as much to be praised as he who does so by force.
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Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke. -- John Heywood (c.
1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. ix...
Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviou
o love her was a liberal education. -- Sir Richard Steele (1671-1729) -- Tatler, N...
hough his invention worked superbly -- his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end.
-- Vernor Vinge, The Peace Wa...

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