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"ref": "1682, John Flavel, Preparations for Sufferings, or the Best Work in the Worst Times",
"text": "He must not depend on any thing that is failable; for what shall he do then, when that stock is spent, and he hath no provision left to live upon?",
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"Capable of failing or becoming exhausted."
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