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«I've grown accustomed to the trace / Of something in the air, / Accustomed to her face.»
«Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.»
Author: Fred Woodworth
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
accustomed, cooperate, cooperated, cooperating, helpfulness, mutual, unnecessary
«Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
accustomed, disaster, draws, give birth, instability, irresistible, miracle man, Natural Disasters, natural state, place of birth, regarding, scene, tie
«Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on»
«A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little ''personal characteristics.''»
Author: Helen Rowland
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accustom, accustomed, characteristics, charming, cherish, faults, of his own, personal
«Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.»
«By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.»
Author: French Proverb
| Keywords:
accustom, accustomed, continually, despise, despising, in time, reproof, reproofs, scold, scolded, scolding, to it
«America is destined to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and accustomed to one general tenor of social usages and customs»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
accustomed, customs, destined, One Nation, peopled, political system, political systems, professes, professing, social system, social systems, tenor, Tenors
«A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
accustom, accustomed, in time, palate, palates
«Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
accustomed, at ease, governors, indiscriminate, petitioner, presently, redress, redressing, request, wrongs
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