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Letter "R" » roughness
«Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.»
«Society is like a lawn where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface»
Author: Washington Irving
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«Severity breedeth fear, but roughness breedeth hate. Even reproofs from authority ought to be grave and not taunting.»
«What an antithetical mind! -- tenderness, roughness -- delicacy, coarseness -- sentiment, sensuality -- soaring and groveling, dirt and deity -- all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!»
«There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.»