#plea

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

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Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

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Diseases are the tax on pleasures. ↗

— John Ray

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The Lord knows that I could not open scripture; he must by his prophetical office open it unto me. So after that being unsatisfied in the thing, the Lord was pleased to bring this scripture out of the Hebrews. ↗

— Anne Hutchinson

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Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth. ↗

— Anne Hutchinson

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We measure very carefully what the positives are and I think it is less than one tenth of one percent, so we are very pleased with the accuracy of our biometric checks and we continue to monitor that. ↗

— Asa Hutchinson

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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

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