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• I have got an infamous army, very weak and ill-equipped, and a very inexperienced staff.

  Duke of Wellington

  Army, Infamous, Weak

  Arthur Wellesley (1st duke of Wellington.) (1838). “The dispatches of ... the duke of Wellington, compiled by lieut. colonel Gurwood. [With] Suppl. to vol. 1/3 [and] Index. [With] Index”, p.358

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• There's no nation under the sun can beat the English for ill-politeness: for my part, I hate the very sight of them; and so I shall only just visit a person of quality or two of my particular acquaintance, and then I shall go back again to France.

  Fanny Burney

  Hate, Sight, Two

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.65, Delphi Classics

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• Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who must be subjugated to society's goals to a precious being who must be protected from unreasonable social demands. Childhood has come to be seen as a special period of life, rather than as a temporary state of no lasting importance for adulthood.

  Sandra Scarr

  Change, Children, Past

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• Flu is easily transmitted, so if you are working with sick people - who are most at risk for getting seriously ill - you ought to be vaccinated. I am not really equipped to say whether it should be the law or not.

  Michael Specter

  Law, People, Sick

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• Vaccination is a public health issue because influenza is a highly contagious disease. If you don't vaccinate your child, his or her schoolmates are much more likely to become ill. That is why some places (New York, for example) are making the vaccine mandatory for school children.

  Michael Specter

  New York, Children, School

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Self, Vices, Virtue

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• He that marries late, marries ill.

  George Herbert

  Late

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.318

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• It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Faithful, Mistress

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• What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Done, Literature, Wells

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.267, Harvard University Press

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• Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  May, Wealth, Masters

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1877). “Spanish Salt: A Collection of All the Proverbs which are to be Found in Don Quixote”, p.12

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• It is better to be idle than employed in ill.

  Norm MacDonald

  Laziness, Idle, Employed

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• Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Liberty, Emulation, Example

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• The best time for marriage will be towards thirty, for as the younger times are unfit, either to choose or to govern a wife and family, so, if thou stay long, thou shalt hardly see the education of thy children, who, being left to strangers, are in effect lost; and better were it to be unborn than ill-bred; for thereby thy posterity shall either perish, or remain a shame to thy name.

  Walter Raleigh

  Children, Names, Wife

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• It is remarkable that men, when they differ in what they think considerable, will be apt to differ in almost everything else; their difference begets contradiction; contradiction begets heat; heat quickly rises into resentment, rage, and ill-will; thus they differ in affections, as they differ in judgment.

  Cato the Younger

  Thinking, Men, Differences

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• Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known, than their crimes; and, if you hint to a man that you think him silly, ignorant, or even ill-bred or awkward, he will hate you more, and longer, than if you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Hate, Silly, Men

  "Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

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• He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

  Seneca the Younger

  Doe, Wells, Know How

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• It is said that the Negro is ignorant. But why is he ignorant? It comes with ill grace from a man who has put out my eyes to makea parade of my blindness,--to reproach me for my poverty when he has wronged me of my money.... If he is poor, what has become of the money he has been earning for the last two hundred and fifty years? Years ago it was said cotton fights and cotton conquers for American slavery. The Negro helped build up that great cotton power in the South, and in the North his sigh was in the whir of its machinery, and his blood and tears upon the warp and woof of its manufactures.

  Frances Harper

  Eye, Fighting, Men

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• Thought consoles us for all, and heals all. If at times it does you ill, ask it for the remedy for that ill and it will give it to you.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Giving, Doe, Heal

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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• Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Wrinkles, Together, Made

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• Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Stones, Pitcher

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.466

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• For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Vanity, Handsome, Imagine

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• Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous.

  H. G. Wells

  Promise, May, Firsts

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• Therefore, since the world has still
  Much good, but much less good than ill

  A. E. Housman

  Evil, World, Goodness

  A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• The ill usage of every minute is a new record against us in heaven.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Heaven, Records, Moments

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• Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.

  Philip Sidney

  Men, Faults, Virtue

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.25

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