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Famous quotes containing the words allowances and/or markets:

    Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.
    Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

    When the great markets by the sea shut fast
    All that calm Sunday that goes on and on:
    When even lovers find their peace at last,
    And Earth is but a star, that once had shone.
    James Elroy Flecker (1884–1919)