Sake

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“Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.”
—Bible: New Testament 1 Timothy 5:23.

“What is done for science must also be done for art: accepting undesirable side effects for the sake of the main goal, and moreover diminishing their importance by making this main goal more magnificent. For one should reform forward, not backward: social illnesses, revolutions, are evolutions inhibited by a conserving stupidity.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)

“If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say ... “Sweet Friend, for Jesus’ sake forbear.””
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)