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• Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the… — Annie Besant
• The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. — Ambrose Bierce
• I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts… — Geraldine Brooks
• In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none… — Elinor Wylie
• Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• The more you are possession oriented, the less happy you will be. The less happy you are, the farther away… — Rajneesh
• Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real. — Ansel Adams
• When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When… — Kingsley Amis
• Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting… — Carolyn Heilbrun
• I have to say, though, it's a little strange doing both because Durant is very straight and stern and austere. — Corbin Bernsen
• The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a… — Alexander Herzen

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