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Blissful ignorance of the abyss of preventible misery which exists in Edinburgh is impossible now.

From Notes on Old Edinburgh by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

He believed that war was the greatest of preventible evils, and that no war which had occurred in his lifetime had been justified by the laws of right and wrong.

From Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences by Russell, George William Erskine

The years 1769 to 1773 afforded abundant evidence of the terrible prevalence of what are now considered preventible diseases.

From Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King by Kingston, Alfred

During this week, while all seemed going so well, one of the endless unhappy and preventible things happened.

From John Redmond's Last Years by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius

It is perfectly certain that all diseases without exception are preventible, or if not so, that they can be so weakened as to do no harm.

From The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies by Besant, Walter, Sir