#readily

What we wish, that we readily believe. ↗

— Demosthenes

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I can't understand why people so readily put themselves up to be humiliated. ↗

— Penelope Wilton

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In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

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Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received. ↗

— Horatio Alger

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It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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He who forgives readily only invites offense. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

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The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them. ↗

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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