#lavish

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. ↗

— John Adams

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But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

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A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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Be always lavish of your caresses, and sparing in your corrections. ↗

— William Cavendish

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The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

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If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

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Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

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I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent. ↗

— Tom Hooper

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O imitators, you slavish herd! ↗

— Horace

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