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When I did perceive that I was delivered from death, and reserved to be gelded, I was greatly sorrie, insomuch that I thought all the hinder part of my body and my stones did ake for woe, but I sought about to kill my selfe by some manner of meanes, to the end if I should die, I would die with unperished members.
The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius
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Then my sorrow encreased or rather doubled, in that I could not end my life with whole and unperished members.
The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius
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Look around you for pictures that you really like, and in buying which you can help some genius yet unperished -- that is the best atonement you can make to the one you have neglected -- and give to the living and struggling painter at once wages, and testimonial.
A Joy For Ever (And Its Price in the Market) John Ruskin 1859
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Then my sorrow encreased or rather doubled, in that I could not end my life with whole and unperished members.
The Golden Asse 1566
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When I did perceive that I was delivered from death, and reserved to be gelded, I was greatly sorrie, insomuch that I thought all the hinder part of my body and my stones did ake for woe, but I sought about to kill my selfe by some manner of meanes, to the end if I should die, I would die with unperished members.
The Golden Asse 1566
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