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• Moving parallel with us, and extending its folds like some huge reptile, was an army equipped with the best the world could afford--three-fold greater in numbers than our own--which in four years had never succeeded in defeating us in a general battle, but which we had repeatedly routed and driven to cover. —  The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson
• Young men in this way have been led into expenses which they could not afford, and into society that did them harm, and into debts sometimes that they could not pay. —  Life and Conduct
• A man may possess all the resources for enjoyment which this world can afford, and yet feel that "all is vanity and vexation of spirit," and that he is supremely wretched. —  A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
• He discharged his duties as sweetly, as if there never had been a suspicion of dissatisfaction; he prepared his sermons as carefully, as if the best audience New York could afford were there to listen." —  Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886
• The supper was the best the house could afford, and all the officers in the column sat down to it. —  George at the Fort Life Among the Soldiers

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