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up normal pleasure is to yield
"To assume that egoistic pleasures may be relinquished to any extent is to fall into one of those many errors of ethical speculation which result from ignoring the laws of biology.... To yield up normal pleasure is to yield up so much life; and there arises the question:—to what extent may this be done?...
— from A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Cora May Williams

up now payable in ten years
Kindly draw it up now, payable in ten years, with interest at four per cent.
— from The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man by George Randolph Chester

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