#procure

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Whoever does not have a good father should procure one. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#invent #know #must #procure #rulers

We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

#black #except #extremity #flight #geese

I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation. ↗

— Dolley Madison

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At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house. ↗

— Dolley Madison

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By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them. ↗

— David Ricardo

#alone #any #bestow #country #desire

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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