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Letter "P" » prerogative
«She is said to be inclined to cough noisily when he goes on too long at the rostrum; but this is a traditional prerogative of the political wife, and rather more necessary in this instance than in most.»
«Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.'»
«The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.»
Author: Tom Stoppard
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Playwright)
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«When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.»
«Reason to rule but mercy to forgive: the first is law; the last, prerogative.»
«The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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«To proceed from one truth to another, and connect distant propositions by regular consequences, is the great prerogative of man»