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«Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism»
«Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill and calling for larger spurs and brighter beaks. I fear that nationalism is one of England's many spurious gifts to the world.»
Author: Richard Aldington
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Novelist,
Poet,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
beak,
beaks,
brighter,
cock,
collective,
crowing,
dunghill,
dunghills,
lively,
sense of responsibility,
spurious,
spurs
«All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!»
«What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by the bull of Pope Gelasius? Where are the forty wagon-loads of Hebrew manuscripts burned in France, by order of another p»
Author: John Adams
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President)
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Keywords:
bull,
burned,
Christian Era,
condemned,
era,
Gospels,
havoc,
Hebrew,
loads,
manuscripts,
Order of,
pope,
spurious,
wagon,
wagons