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Letter "A" » assailed
«Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.»
Author: Charlotte Bronte
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Conventionality
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«Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by»
Author: Eric Johnston
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Government
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«Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.»
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
(Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist)
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«A insignificant right becomes important when it is assailed.»
«PEACE, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.O, what's the loud uproar assailing Mine ears without cease?'Tis the voice of the hopeful, all-hailing The horrors of peace.Ah, Peace Universal; they woo it -- Would marry it, too. If only they knew how to do it'Twere easy to do.They're working by night and by day On their problem, like moles. Have mercy, O Heaven, I pray, On their meddlesome souls! --Ro Amil»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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«Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.»
«In all my writings my aim has been to spare sinners and assail sin»
«Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, / And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; / There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, / Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.»
«But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
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