![It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand.
[Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]](/assets/img/quote-photos/it-is-something-to-hold-the-scepter-with-a-firm-hand-lat-est-aliquid-valida-s.jpg)
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hands class two
Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.
hands sorrow tears
If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you! Charles Dickens
hands feet office
Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
hands library grew
I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries. Charles Stross
hands soul half
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hands despair rope
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hands soap calling
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And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords Alan Watts
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He's a prig. He's royalty and he can't get over it. Keith Giffen
royalty
I want to play a princess or some woman from royalty or aristocracy. If I get to have an accent, even better. And I want to play a butt-kicking superhero, like Catwoman. Christa B. Allen
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I didn't send back any of the royalty checks. Ira Levin
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To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue. Hannah More
royalty states
I am the State. [Fr., L'etat c'est moi.] Louis XIV
royalty plus proof
Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch. [Fr., La clemence est la plus belle marque Qui fasse a l'univers connaitre un vrai monqrque.] Pierre Corneille
royalty existence feels
All the time I feel I must justify my existence. Prince Charles
royalty infrastructure company
Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free. Tim Berners-Lee
royalty vain sigh
For monarchs seldom sigh in vain. Walter Scott
firm overhead pay placement tough
We are pretty tough on fees. We are not going to pay a firm more because they have some overhead with a placement agent.
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We still stand firm in our view that there should be two newspapers. It would be a shame if there was arbitration, and only one newspaper left standing after all of this sound and fury.
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Stand firm, don't flutter! Benjamin Franklin
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We're getting down to the wire. Looks to be in the next four to six weeks or sooner there will be some firm announcements of where we'll land.
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For who so firm that cannot be seduced? William Shakespeare
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I'm pretty firm in my sexuality and my love for women. Kenny Chesney
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