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«Every generation is convinced there has been a deplorable breakdown of manners»
«Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.»
«The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.»
«DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to the reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed the most unexpected and deplorable consequences sometimes ensue. A long time ago a man lost his life in a duel.That dueling's a gentlemanly vice I hold; and wish that it had been my lot To live my life out in some favored spot -- Some country where it is considered nice To split a rival like a fish, or slice A husband like a spud, or with a shot Bring down a debtor doubled in a knot And ready to be put upon the ice. Some miscreants there are, whom I do long To shoot, to stab, or some such way reclaim The scurvy rogues to better lives and manners, I seem to see them now --a mighty throng. It looks as if to challenge _me_ they came, Jauntily marching with brass bands and banners! --Xamba Q. Dar»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
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benighted, deplorable, fragile, Lent, novelty, paradoxes
«It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
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Crime
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deplorable, derivative, Great White, incontestable, Negroes
«Duty without LOVE is deplorable, duty with LOVE is desirable, LOVE without duty is divine.»
«Death is not a deplorable event,It is the journey?s end.»
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