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wish gum enough
By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head! C. S. Lewis
wish invisible
And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see. C. S. Lewis
wish leisure wit
if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure. C. S. Lewis
wish use type
I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing Alan Ladd
wish looks too-much
One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it. Djuna Barnes
wish language british
I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. Diane Wakoski
wish world back-again
Wish I could spin my world into reverse just to have you back again David Guetta
wish genius taste
There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them. Jane Austen
wish shy natural
I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness." -Edward Ferrars Jane Austen
literature privilege reason
Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal. Carlos Fuentes
literature civility
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. Charles Dickens
literature potatoes poultry
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips. Charles Dickens
literature made should
I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself. Charles Dickens
literature stealing plagiarism
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. Charles Caleb Colton
literature prudence
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. Charles Caleb Colton
literature fool religious-bigotry
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost. Charles Caleb Colton
literature speech giants
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer. Charles Caleb Colton
literature action conflict
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions. Charles Caleb Colton
slave owners homosexual
In this respect, granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves. Alan Keyes
slavery england invention
In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain. Chiwetel Ejiofor
slave trading
Poetry and slave trading cannot be bedfellows. That's where I stand. Chinua Achebe
slavery aristocratic
Slavery is malignantly aristocratic. Antoinette Brown Blackwell
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
slave refuge
Dissimulation is the refuge of the slave. C. L. R. James
slave-labor tunnels digging
There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it. Charles Guggenheim
slave masters horrible
Money is a great slave but a horrible master. Daymond John
slavery
To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself. Elbert Hubbard