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I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all. ↗

— Catherine the Great

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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest? ↗

— Aeschylus

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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds. ↗

— Gore Vidal

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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

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I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery. ↗

— Rene Descartes

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It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

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