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people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. Charles Caleb Colton
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude. Charles Dickens
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
slavery england invention
In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain. Chiwetel Ejiofor
slavery driven form
I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms. Caleb Cushing
slavery structure
Freedom without structure is its own slavery. David Brooks
slavery facts constitution
The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine. Beau Willimon
slavery human-nature humans
Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature. Benjamin Franklin
slavery soil compromise
I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation. Abraham Lincoln
slavery constitution shows
An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.
slavery abstract knows
You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.
slavery want policy
We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.
terrible formidable sensations
In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.
terrible companion acknowledge
Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing. Alan Ball
terrible touched trusted
It touched me to be trusted with something terrible. Elizabeth Kostova
terrible
I have a terrible sense of direction. Elizabeth McGovern
terrible
Unique, ... That wasn't that terrible of a team, I guess. Bobby Valentine
terrible being-true
Some things are too terrible to be true. Bob Dylan
terrible blogs deserve
I'm terrible at posting regularly; I don't deserve the blog success! Ashley Madekwe
terrible bores
Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore. Auberon Waugh
terrible war
It's kind of a terrible irony, in a way, that the solution to America's problems was World War II. William O'Neill