#dispose

Britain will be honoured by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it. ↗

— Lord Harlech

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We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides. ↗

— Saint Ignatius

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In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. ↗

— Angela Carter

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Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty. ↗

— Jeremy Collier

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Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back? ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

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Having achieved such signal successes in the east, Russia and Roumania being both disposed of, the German leaders planned a campaign designed to crush Italy. ↗

— Kelly Miller

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Certainly the party counts a considerable number of intellectuals among its members, but I am by no means disposed to apologise for that. ↗

— Harry Oppenheimer

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The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States. ↗

— Salmon Portland Chase

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Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Man proposes, and God disposes. ↗