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How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!


James Payn


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The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.


Samuel Richardson


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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.


Samuel Johnson


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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.


Samuel Johnson


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Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.


Albert Schweitzer


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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.


Madame de Stael


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Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.


John Sterling


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None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours.


Thomas Babington Macaulay


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The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.


Josiah Warren


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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.


Macy Gray


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