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• Thou fool, I ne'er do things by halves,
• Farthings are made for Irish slaves;
• No brass for me, it must be gold,
• Or fifty pounds in silver told.
• I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong.
• Johnson, who, as we have before remarked, rarely praised or dispraised things by halves, broke forth in a warm eulogy.
• She was too thoroughgoing to do things by halves.
• "When things happen to us in Latin America, it is never by halves. There is no equilibrium, so when it rains, towns get inundated and disappear, and when we have a revolution, half the population dies."
• They don't do things by halves in the States. Whether it is cars, burgers or waistlines, Americans like to think bigger.