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The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address.


Mercy Otis Warren


#agent #britain #chosen #court #deliver

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.


Virginia Woolf


#between #cannot #country #fighting #gratify

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.


Elias Canetti


#invent #know #must #procure #rulers

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.


Epictetus


#desire #desired #enjoyment #freedom #full

Refrain at all times from such Foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression.


Thomas Tryon


#foods #oppression #procured #refrain #such

There were some tragic cases of women whose love was abused, who for a certain time procured important documents or information, not knowing who for, what service they worked for, and for a variety reasons got jailed, were tried and sentenced.


Markus Wolf


#certain #certain time #documents #got #important

I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation.


Dolley Madison


#am #cabinet #carriage #fill #i

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.


David Ricardo


#alone #any #bestow #country #desire