#peculiar

Love is a peculiar thing. ↗

— Georg Buchner

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What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron? ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

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Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

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I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens. ↗

— Joseph Hume

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The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

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The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

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There seems to be a peculiar kind of clamor for comics. And I'm not sure how much a part of reality that is. I think partly it's based on some idea that comics are what everybody wants to read - and I don't think that's the case. ↗

— Chris Ware

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To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men. ↗

— Richard Wilbur

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At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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