#petitioner

I think I've been wishing for celebrity for so long that I've got used to being someone who's petitioning the establishment for acceptance... my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don't really know how to react now that petition has been granted. ↗

— Toby Young

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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#behalf #laws #petitioner #pray #single

Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

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The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis. ↗

— Robert Jackson

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I came not to your glorious shores to enjoy a happy rest - I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction, but as a humble petitioner, in my country's name, as its freely chosen constitutional leader, to entreat your generous aid. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#came #chosen #constitutional #country #distinction