#creeping

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. ↗

— A. C. Benson

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It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#death #inner #living #longer #praise

What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years. ↗

— John Fischer

#creeping #needs #radicals #regardless #stay

Riding in advance, we passed over one of these great plains; we looked back and saw the line of scattered horsemen stretching for a mile or more; and far in the rear against the horizon, the white wagons creeping slowly along. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#against #along #back #creeping #far

I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic. ↗

— Arthur Smith

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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#common sense #creeping #die #discover #late

Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect. ↗

— James Buchan

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A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball. ↗

— Christy Mathewson

#ball #begin #bouncing #boy #cannot

When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it. The highest type of man may revert to the animal if he leaves the straight road of destiny. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#doyle #sherlock-holmes #nature

I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

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