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With all its golden stores, where men are wanting,
The Persians 2002
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With all its golden stores, where men are wanting,
The Persians 2002
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Utopians reckon it the foundation and basis of all the other joys of life; since this alone makes the state of life easy and desirable; and when this is wanting,
Utopia 1999
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Well, the age of learning came: in it I learned this, that, and the other; but, alas! order, the faculty in which I am so deficient, was wanting,
A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England Eliza Southall
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One of the Frenchmen unearthed an old fiddle, and though one of its strings was wanting,
Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Herbert Strang
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Like wine, which is spilt when the people are wanting,
The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens Henry Kendall 1860
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Skilful treatment, youth, and a good constitution, effected a change which, with good nursing, would have rapidly restored him to health; the latter, however, was entirely wanting,
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Of midnight we will sup there: see nought wanting,
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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Ah! the singers still live; the actions only are wanting,
The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782
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Ah! the singers still live; the actions only are wanting,
The Poems of Schiller — Third period Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782
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