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Letter "W" » weakly
«A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.»
«I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.»
«Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right..»
Author: Tallulah Bankhead
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Actress)
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Keywords:
champion,
die hard,
excess,
foe,
hard line,
quibble,
quibbles,
quibbling,
shuffle,
shuffled,
shuffles,
shuffling,
strongly,
weakly
«Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish»
«Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely.»
«The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Essayist,
Lecturer,
Poet)
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Keywords:
abide,
abide by,
by fits and starts,
fits,
generosity,
genuine,
heroic,
heroism,
impulses,
persistency,
reconcile,
resolved,
wandering,
weakly