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Letter "I" » ignominious
«To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
getaway, getaways, ignominious, lords, surprising, to a great extent, when the time comes
«The American people, taken one with another, constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the middle ages»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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America and Americans
| Keywords:
American flag, American people, Christendom, constitute, flag, gathered, goose, ignominious, middle ages, mob, serf, serfs, snivel, sniveling, stepper, steppers, timorous
«To be driven by external motives from the path which our heart approves, to give way to any thing but conviction, to suffer the opinion of others to rule our choice or overpower our resolves, is to submit tamely to the lowest and most ignominious sla»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
ignominious, overpower, overpowered, overpowering, resolves, tamely
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