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«The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.»
«The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.»
Author: James F. Cooper
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controlling, infer, inferred, infers, inherits, preferred, repositories, repository
«The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.»
«This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.»
«Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.»
«The food preferred by all is also of three types. So are the sacrifice, austerity, and charity.»
«Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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impossibilities, improbable, possibilities, preferred, probable
«RAMSHACKLE, adj. Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as the Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle order, though some of our earlier architects preferred the Ironic. Recent additions to the White House in Washington are Theo-Doric, the ecclesiastic order of the Dorians. They are exceedingly fine and cost one hundred dollars a brick.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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additions, adj, brick, Buildings, Dorian, Dorians, Doric, earlier, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastics, exceedingly, known as, one hundred, pertain, pertaining, pertains, preferred, ramshackle, recent, Theo, The Normal, The White House, White House
«The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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affirm, enthusiast, enthusiasts, passionate, preferred
«The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.»
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