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A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.


Walter Bagehot


#critic #cure #go #house #institutions

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.


Abigail Adams


#been #daughters #eve #fine #fine thing

After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued.


William Henry Ashley


#days #encampment #excessively #fatigued #horses

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.


Ted W. Engstrom


#far #must #pain #persevere #precede

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.


Clarence Darrow


#ever #help #offense #oppressed #other

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.


Josh Billings


#effect #fighting #him #his #man

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.


Napoleon Bonaparte


#less #more #often #order #policing

Today's gasoline prices are taking a severe toll on Americans' pocketbooks. Consumers are anxious.


Pete Domenici


#consumers #gasoline #gasoline prices #pocketbooks #prices

Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.


Andrea Dworkin


#body #born #genre #head #her

Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.


Andrea Bocelli


#insist #lot #persevere #you






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