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| ... a certain peril; would she spare him who threatened her with a far greater danger? Are women merciful, or loving, or kind in proportion to their beauty and their grace? Was there not a certain Monsieur Mazers de Latude, who had the bad fortune to offend the all-accomplished Madame ... |
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| ... knows with cruel certainty the surest way to wound the other; and who stab, and tear, and claw at these vulnerable spots in exact proportion to their love. Ugly words. Bitter words. Words that neither knew they knew flew between them like sparks between steel striking steel. From him: "Trouble ... |
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| ... Mr. Astor covenanted to bear all the loss that might be incurred; after which it was to be borne by all the partners, in proportion to their respective shares. The parties of the second part were to execute faithfully such duties as might be assigned to them by a majority ... |
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| ... as ``men sometimes do with age and increasing vanity, he spelled them with huge capitals, erecting them into a position out of all proportion to their relative importance in the life of the human animal. Mr. Feuerstein had just enough knowledge to enable him to play upon this weakness, this ... |
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| ... my nerves tingling; but Nayland Smith gave no sign, and I knew that my imagination was magnifying these ordinary night sounds out of all proportion to their actual significance. Leaves rustled faintly outside the window at my back: I construed their sibilant whispers into the dreaded name--Fu-ManchuFu-Manchu-- ... |
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| ... animal creation. Man is far from the animal in proportion as his brain is cultivated. Even the animals themselves rank in their kingdom in proportion to their brain activity. William T. Harris said truly: "If man had let himself alone he would have remained the monkey that he was. Not ... |
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Descartes René - Discourse On The Method Of Rightly Conducting The Reason, And Seeking Truth In The Sciences
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| ... when poor in making acquisitions of much smaller amount. Or they may be compared to the commanders of armies, whose forces usually increase in proportion to their victories, and who need greater prudence to keep together the residue of their troops after a defeat than after a victory to take ... |
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| ... of twelve. In our tender years we still preserve a freshness of surprise at our prolonged existence; events make an impression out of all proportion to their consequence; we are unspeakably touched by our own past adventures, and look forward to our future personality with sentimental interest. It was something ... |
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| ... thus remained merely a small literary party, which probably did not count more than a dozen members, but their influence was out of all proportion to their numbers. They preached successfully the doctrine that the historical development of Russia has been peculiar, that her present social and political organisation is ... |
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| ... the arts, and thus tend to weaken the natural impulse of men to make improvements; that patents do not reward inventors uniformly or in proportion to their merits; that they throw difficulties in the way of invention, and so hinder and annoy inventors; and contrarily, that they lead to an ... |
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| ... means pleased with the prospect of an interview with Albornoz, who, like most able men, valued the talents of those he employed exactly in proportion to their success, the Spaniard slowly returned home. With the licence accorded to him, he entered the Cardinal''s chamber somewhat abruptly, and perceived him in ... |
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