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Letter "B" » banished
«Five enemies of peace inhabit with us / avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.»
Author: Francesco Petrarch
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Humanist,
Poet,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
ambition,
avarice,
banished,
banishes,
banishing,
envy,
infallibly,
inhabit,
perpetual
«We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.»
«Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people in order to betray them.»
«My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.»
«And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished.»
«For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.»
«My first wish is to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements and exercising them for the destruction of mankind»
Author: George Washington
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President)
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About:
Mankind
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Keywords:
amusements,
banished,
daughters,
employed,
exercising,
implemented,
implementing,
implements,
my first,
plague,
pleasing,
preparing,
Sons and Daughters
«Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. By Order of the Author»
Author: Mark Twain
(
Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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About:
Morality
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Keywords:
attempting,
author,
banished,
banishes,
banishing,
motive,
narrative,
narratives,
Order of,
plot,
plotting,
prosecute,
prosecuted,
prosecuting,
shot,
The Author
«The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.»