#creeping

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

— Eric Hoffer

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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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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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