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selfish character government
If the Irish once find out that there are any circumstances in which they can get free government grants, we shall have a system of mendicancy [begging] such as the world never knew”. After a million had starved to death he stated “The great evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people. Charles Trevelyan
selfish real character
The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.
self roots african-american
Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away the heaped-up wrongs of centuries; but they languish at times, while the love of self works on ceaselessly, unwearyingly,burrowing always at the very root of life, and heaping up fresh wrongs for other centuries to sweep away. Charles W. Chesnutt
selfish opportunity people
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. Charles Dudley Warner
self people all-time
The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering. Charles de Gaulle
self self-knowledge
By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged. Charles de Lint
self-confidence world conquer
The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour. Charles Dickens
self words-of-wisdom crowns
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!
self cells knaves
Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave! Charles Caleb Colton
smoking identity cigar
Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity.
smoking chocolate baths
It's hard to love a place that's outlawed smoking but finds it perfectly acceptable to serve raw fish in a bath of chocolate. David Sedaris
smoking smoke
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast. Cesare Pavese
smoking suing three
I'm eighty-three and I've been smoking since I was eleven. I'm suing the cigarette company because it promised to kill me and it hasn't. Kurt Vonnegut
smoking too-much cheetahs
I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much. John Green
smoking would-be habit
There would be no bohemia without smoking. David Hockney
smoking wells smoke
Love, Cough, & a Smoke, can't well be hid. Benjamin Franklin
smoking three problem
It is quite a three-pipe problem. Arthur Conan Doyle
smoking moral habit
You have proved it is a very moral habit. Benjamin Disraeli
wicked earth would-be
A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.
wicked witch casts
Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch. Alan Rickman
wicked-person lovers common
Judas Iscariot was not a greatly wicked person, just a common money-lover, and like most money-lovers, he did not understand Christ. Aiden Wilson Tozer
wicked wrong-person persons
It must be less wicked to love the wrong person than not to love anybody at all. Edith Wharton
wicked stories bob
The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories. Ed Sheeran
wickedness criminals weak
It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness. Edgar Rice Burroughs
wicked world way
It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to being with. Daniel Handler
wicked
It would not be wicked to love me." "It would to obey you. Charlotte Bronte
wicked charity beast
Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce! William Shakespeare