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I know not at what point it was, precisely, in these ethical instructions that an insight seemed to strike the grim Doctor that something more -- vastly more -- was needed than all he had said; and he began, doubtfully, to speak of man's spiritual nature and its demands, and the emptiness of everything which a sense of these demands did not pervade, and condense, and weighten into realities.
Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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wheeze wul awl be hear weighten furr yew wen yew git back!
Who DARES to - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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The king angrily spoke: "I will weighten their yoke, and their villainy repay; all the Jews who, from to-day, die in this town, to the pit take down, to the pit hurry all, without burial.
The Book of Delight and Other Papers Israel Abrahams 1891
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