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If I am not at all times equally penetrated by the great fact of man's conscious immortality, it is because of my undesert.
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"How foolish a cry, when to implore help, is itself the proof of undesert of it."
The Confidence-Man 1857
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"How foolish a cry, when to implore help, is itself the proof of undesert of it."
The Confidence-Man Herman Melville 1855
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Mingo was gratified and expressed his acknowledgments quite as warmly as it was in his power to do under the feeling of shame and undesert which at that moment oppressed him.
The Wigwam and the Cabin. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. Second Series 1845
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When I have most cause to deem myself blessed, or to call myself triumphant, it is then that I am stricken with a feeling of undesert, that I am grave with humility, or sad with the thought of human instability.
Rattlin the Reefer Edward Howard 1820
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