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We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain extent the formation of wood and leaves. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out. ↗

— Ethel Waters

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But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid. ↗

— Stephen Hopkins

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Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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