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• Pray, dear madam, another glass; it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Christmas, Glasses, Praying

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1870). “Catherine. Titmarsch among pictures and books. Fraser miscellanies. Christmas books. Ballads”, p.424

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• My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Brother, Progress, Enlightenment

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• My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?

  Galileo Galilei

  Laughing, Kepler, Telescopes

  Letter to Johannes Kepler (1610), as quoted in "The Crime of Galileo" by Giorgio De Santillana, 1955.

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• Armament should be an illegality everywhere, and some sort of international force should patrol a treaty-bound world. Partial armament is one of those absurdities dear to moderate-minded 'reasonable' men. Armament itself is making war. Making a gun, pointing a gun, and firing it are all acts of the same order. It should be illegal to construct anywhere upon earth any mechanism for the specific purpose of killing men. When you see a gun it is reasonable to ask: 'Whom is that intended to kill?'

  H. G. Wells

  War, Gun, Men

  H. G. Wells (2007). “The New World Order”, p.114, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• My dear friends, God’s creation is one and it is good. The concerns for nonviolence, sustainable development, justice and peace, and care for our environment are of vital importance for humanity. They cannot, however, be understood apart from a profound reflection on the innate dignity of every human life from conception to natural death: a dignity conferred by God himself and thus inviolable.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Reflection, Profound, Justice

  Pope Benedict XVI (2014). “The Garden of God”, p.26, CUA Press

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• So, dear friend, put fear out of your heart. This nation will survive, this state will prosper, the orderly business of life will go forward if only men can speak in whatever way given them to utter what their hearts hold — by voice, by posted card, by letter or by press. Reason never has failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

  William Allen White

  Heart, Men, Voice

  William Allen White (1937). “Forty Years on Main Street”

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• Let us open wide the windows of our hearts, that each family member may feel welcome and 'at home.' Let us open also the doors of our very souls, that the dear ________ may enter. Remember His promise: 'Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him' (Revelation 3:20).

  Thomas S. Monson

  Home, Heart, Men

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• Let us not live a life … that would bring regret. … It is not going to matter very much how much money you made, what kind of a house you lived in, what kind of a car you drove, the size of your bank account—any of those things. What is going to matter is that dear woman who has walked with you side by side as your companion through all of the years of life and those children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren and their faithfulness and their looking to you … with respect and love and deference and kindness.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Children, Kindness, Regret

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• Barbara Bush has her finger on the pulse of America. Im so glad shes back and more compassionate than ever, ... Thats right, of course people just sat around New Orleans, boring, uninspired, soulless New Orleans, and dreamed of someday relocating to the Astrodome. Oh, dear Lord, if only I could leave my unhappy existence and head on up to wonderful Houston and live with my friends side by side in a spacious football stadium, my life would be so much richer and complete.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Football, Dear Lord, America

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• I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Science, Data, Investing

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2006). “The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, with "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"”, p.236, Broadview Press

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• I would not wish to be Prime Minister, dear.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Ironic, Wish, Prime

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• Come into the mountains, dear friend Leave society and take no one with you But your true self Get close to nature Your everyday games will be insignificant Notice the clouds spontaneously forming patterns And try to do that with your life.

  Susan Polis Schutz

  Life, Nature, Clouds

  Susan Polis Schutz (1972). “Come Into the Mountains, Dear Friend”, Blue Mountain Press

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• My dearest dearest dear Albert sat on a footstool by my side and his excessive love and affection gave me feelings of heavenly love and happiness I never could have hoped to have felt before! He clasped me in his arms and we kissed each other again and again! His beauty... his sweetness and gentleness - really how can I ever be thankful enough to have such a husband! to be called names of tenderness, I have never yet heard used to me before - was bliss beyond belief! Oh! This was the happiest day of my life! May God help me to do my duty as I ought and be worthy of such blessings.

  Queen Victoria

  Husband, Blessing, Names

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• About one thing the Englishman has a particularly strict code. If a bird says Cluk bik bik bik bik and caw you may kill it, eat it or ask Fortnums to pickle it in Napoleon brandy with wild strawberries. If it says tweet it is a dear and precious friend and you'd better lay off it if you want to remain a member of Boodles.

  Clement Freud

  Bird, Insulting, May

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• Dear Mr. President: ... We urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraq sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs.

  Joe Lieberman

  Wmds In Iraq, Mass Destruction, Air

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• Even thus last night, and two nights more I lay,
  And could not win thee, Sleep, by any stealth:
  So do not let me wear to-night away.
  Without thee what is all the morning's wealth?
  Come, blessed barrier between day and day,
  Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!

  William Wordsworth

  Mother, Dream, Morning

  William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.181

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• I have just been condemned, not to a shameful death, which can only apply to felons, but rather to finding your brother again...I seek forgiveness for all whom I know for every harm I may have unwittingly caused them...Adieu, good, gentle sister...I embrace you with all my heart as well as the poor, dear children.

  Marie Antoinette

  Brother, Children, Heart

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• Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.

  Raoul Dufy

  Hypothesis

  Alfred Werner, Henri Rousseau, Raoul Dufy (1970). “Rousseau/Dufy”

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• You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding and my dear one, you and I have been granted a mighty generous one.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Believe, Should Have, Play

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• I say that a Christian congregation can survive and often appear to prosper in the community by the exercise of human talent and without any touch from the Holy Spirit! All that religious activity and the dear people will not know anything better until the great and terrible day when our self-employed talents are burned with fire and only that which was wrought by the Holy Ghost will stand forever!

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Religious, Exercise

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• Dear Lord, I pray that my place will never be with the cold, timid souls who do not compete yet criticize, for they never know or feel success or failure.

  Bob Stoops

  Dear Lord, Soul, Cold

  "Bob Stoops: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. September 15, 2011.

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• Keep steady in the view of the great principles for which you contend. The safety of your homes and the lives of all you hold dear depend upon your courage and exertions. Let each man resolve to be victorious, and that the right of self government, liberty and peace shall find him a defender.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Home, Men

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• My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Funny, War, Humor

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• We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience. To enveigh against things that are past and irremediable, is unpleasing; but to steer clear of the shelves and rocks we have struck upon, is the part of wisdom, equally as incumbent on political as other men, who have their own little bark, or that of others, to navigate through the intricate paths of life, or the trackless ocean, to the haven of security and rest.

  George Washington

  Ocean, Past, Men

  George Washington, David Maydole Matteson (1781). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.378

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• Of all my children, this is the one that cost me the worst birth-pangs and brought me the most sorrow; and for that reason it is the one most dear to me.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Children, Sorrow, Cost

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