#pleads

At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

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Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights. ↗

— Richard Barnfield

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Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures. ↗

— James McHenry

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A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest. ↗

— Helen Rowland

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