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We walk along the cliff, and I feel a sudden impulse to push you over, which I promptly do: I acted on impulse, yet I certainly in ...
There was never any thing by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been co ...
The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; ...
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account f ...
A sect or a party is an elegant incognito, devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their express ...
A witch is one who worketh by the Devil or by some curious art either healing or revealing things secret, or foretelling things to ...
No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in socie ...
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public exp ...
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