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While the Federal Party firmly believed in equal opportunity and agreed it was time to redress past evils,
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How it brings ready aid to man against every kind of evils,
All About Coffee 1909
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Awake now to affairs that affect the good of the race, they realized that a better way to establish the home, as well as preserve it, is to rid the country of the great evils,
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In view of the fact that there is now sitting at The Hague so important a conference, which has under review the municipal laws of the different nations for the mitigation of their opium and other allied evils,
State of the Union Address William H. Taft 1893
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Recollecting, however, that propositions to introduce a new feature in our fundamental laws can not be too patiently examined, and ought not to be received with favor until the great body of the people are thoroughly impressed with their necessity and value as a remedy for real evils,
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O thou who woo'st a World unworthy, learn * 'Tis house of evils,
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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In the mean time I am grateful for some good, and tolerably patient under certain evils,
Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English Teresa Guiccioli 1836
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Science, indeed, does us one good office in instructing us exactly as to the dimensions of evils,
The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562
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Science, indeed, does us one good office in instructing us exactly as to the dimensions of evils,
The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 18 Michel de Montaigne 1562
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I, once again, held my nose, and voted for the lesser of evils,
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