A promise made is a debt unpaid.
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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.
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The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the world's eye.
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The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person --- her husband.
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The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.
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A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.
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A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.
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