#peculiar

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'. ↗

— David Hume

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In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in? ↗

— Nicholson Baker

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It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

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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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As the treaty made with the United States was the first treaty entered into by your country with other countries, therefore the President regards Japan with peculiar friendliness. ↗

— Townsend Harris

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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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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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I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile. ↗

— Robert Plant

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