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a saving grace a good quality that makes you like something or someone although you do not like anything else about them. It's a small cinema and the seats are uncomfortable, but the saving grace is that people aren't allowed to eat during the film. |
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And I swear that my physical and mental torments, here in my bed, would have been incomparably greater than anything I had endured on the sea, but for the saving grace of one sweet thought. He came one day with the book and begged me to read it, having discovered that my interest in Luther was not as living as it ought to be; so I took it out with me into the garden, because the dullest book takes on a certain saving grace if read out of doors, just as bread and butter, devoid of charm in the drawing-room, is ambrosia eaten under a tree. But it has at least the saving grace of antiquity to excuse it. |
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