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A dentist is only half the doctor he claims to be.

"To Rise Again At A Decent Hour". Book by Joshua Ferris, www.npr.org. May 13, 2014.

If I make a dollar and out of every dollar I’m taxed at 50, half, at 50 cents, I have to give, isn’t that like enough?

"Comedian Jon Lovitz launches expletive-laced tirade against Obama's tax policies". www.foxnews.com. April 24, 2012.

Only half the story is true. The rest is necessary.

John Yau (1989). “Radiant Silhouette: New & Selected Work, 1974-1988”, p.81, David R. Godine Publisher

Unbuttered toast is a substance half complete, and to be forced to eat it in that state is necessarily to feel deprived.

John Thorne, Matt Lewis Thorne (2011). “Pot on the Fire: Further Confessions of a Renegade Cook”, p.140, Macmillan

A maid that laughs is half taken.

John Ray (1818). “A compleat collection of English proverbs. To which is added, A collection of English words not generally used. Repr. verbatim from the ed. of 1768”, p.10

An intuitionist conception of justice is, one might say, but half a conception.

John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.37, Harvard University Press

A drainless shower Of light is poesy: 'tis the supreme of power; 'Tis might half slumbering on its own right arm.

John Keats, Baron Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton (1848). “Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats”, p.26