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«The time of the rack and the screws is come. Summer television has set in with its usual severity. And the small screen, where late the sweet birds sang, is now awash with repeats, reruns, rejects, replacements and reversions to the primitive.»
«Justice is better when it prevents rather than punishes with severity»
«Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion»
«The severity of the laws prevents their execution.»
«When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
reconciler, repent, severity, tenderness
«I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity?»
«Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
foundations, self respect, severity, sobriety, sociality
«The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
aggravation, aggravations, injures, loaded, parent, severity, unjustifiable
«To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed»
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