#blige

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

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Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

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The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance. ↗

— Don Herold

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I can't read all the books I want to read, I can't watch all the phenomena that interest me in the world. The work calls me, and sometimes I wonder whether this is an obsession and I should drop it, or it's a necessity I'm obliged to fulfill. ↗

— James Hillman

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No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well. ↗

— Johann Sebastian Bach

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I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding. ↗

— James Boswell

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It is like we are obliged to assume that the government is only doing what it says it is doing. ↗

— James Bovard

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For the sake of our interests, as well as of our honour and dignity, we were obliged to see that we won for our international policy the same independence that we had secured for our European policy. ↗

— Bernhard von Bulow

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To keep that absolute freedom we cannot be obliged to anyone. ↗

— Christo

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