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«The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.»
«We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Critic,
Essayist,
Playwright)
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Keywords:
appear,
board,
boarded,
boarding,
Board of,
existence,
five,
justify,
justifying,
liquidation,
obliged,
obliges,
obliging,
pain,
take five,
years
«The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.»
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge
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Keywords:
aptitudes,
involve,
moods,
obliged,
perpetuate,
perpetuating,
tastes,
tends,
tends to,
The Pursuit of Happiness,
undertake
«When a religion is good, I conceive that it will support, itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it, so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its»
«The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
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Inventor,
Philosopher,
Printer,
Scientist,
Statesman,
Writer)
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Keywords:
arse,
monarch,
monarchs,
obliged,
obliges,
obliging,
proudest,
the Monarch,
throne
«Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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About:
Fiction,
Truth
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Keywords:
fiction,
fictions,
get stuck,
obliged,
obliges,
obliging,
possibilities,
stick,
stick in,
stick on,
stick out,
stick to,
stick up,
stranger,
Stranger than Fiction,
the sticks
«So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
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Novelist)
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Keywords:
chastity,
compensate,
compensated,
compensates,
compensating,
cruel,
discretion,
display,
employ,
force of law,
in public,
loud,
obliged,
obliges,
obliging,
privacy,
such as
«Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy»
«Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding»
«The bishop who has answered me has been obliged to acknowledge the fact, that the Books that compose the NT, were voted by yeas and nays to be the word of God, as you now vote a law, by the Popish councils of Nicea and Laodocia, about 1,450 years ago.»
Author: Thomas Paine
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Writer)
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Keywords:
acknowledge,
ago,
answered,
bishop,
bishops,
Bishop of,
compose,
councils,
council of,
nays,
obliged,
obliges,
obliging,
popish,
the books,
The Word,
vote,
voted,
Word of God,
yeas