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If Mr. Elliott had therefore only had the prudence to wait where the excursion train stopped near the top of the bank and to send back one of the guards to protect his train, with instructions to ask the driver of the ordinary train to help the excursion train up the short remaining distance, he would hardly have lost time and would, besides, have avoided the risk inseparable from the delicate operation he unwisely determined to carry out and which should have been resorted to under only most exceptional circumstances and not, as in the present case, where there was so easy a solution of the difficulty.
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If so, all I can say is, it is a new Liberalism, and not the one that I have known and practised under more illustrious auspices than these, under one who was not merely the greatest Liberal but the greatest financier that this country has ever known — I mean Mr. Gladstone ... Gladstone ranks as the great financial authority of our country ... Mr. Gladstone would be 100 in December if he were alive, but, centenarian as he would be, I am inclined to think that he would make very short work of the deputation of the Cabinet that waited on him with this measure, and that they would soon find themselves on the stairs, if not in the street.
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He finished his explanation by saying " If you become President yourself someday, Mr. Vice President, you can be sure that I will guard your interests as closely as I did President Johnson's tonight ".
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" If KANU and Mr. Moi will do something about the deterioration of public life, corruption and mismanagement, I'd be happy to fight alongside them.
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If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.
He said: `` If it's all right with you, Mr. Morgan, I'll sleep out here on the couch.
If we let them go, they won't stay away, they'll find men to ride with them and they'll be back.
He added, `` If this doesn't work out, the three of you barricade yourself in the house and talk terms with them ''.
If you've got any ideas ''.
If she did, he could stand it better in the light.
If you ever try anything without my orders I'll kill you ''.
`` If you hadn't I'd have killed you ''.
If she sensed any unusual preoccupation on the part of her mother, she did not comment upon it.
If she, Pamela, were being held responsible for his crimes, then hers must be the final act of expiation.
If, as she walked, her steps fumbled from time to time, she chose to ignore that omen.
If the slope grew steeper and the groves more dim, she tried not to heed.
If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.
If you take the one, you'd better take both ''.
If the bluff failed and they ran into trouble, Brannon had told the others, they would withdraw -- and he would come after his son another time.
If you don't leave this country within 3 days, your life will be taken the same as Powell's was.
If someone were to drop a match in here, this place would go up like a haystack ''.
If we was both armed, you wouldn't talk so tough ''.
`` If you spot Carmer give a yell before you move in ''.
If he wondered whether the attackers would allow him to pull away unmolested, he had his answer a moment later.
If the other pilots were worried, they did not show it.
If it were the enemy, tactically his position was correct.
If they're Japs.
If any of us miss, they can pick up the pieces.
If the turn was too tight, a barrel roll would bring them out.
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