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He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace. ↗

— Hesiod

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I don't think we should be deprived of the privilege of free speech. ↗

— Loretta Swit

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Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream? ↗

— Brendan Francis

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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different. ↗

— John Galsworthy

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Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

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A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

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Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

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Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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