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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
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Law is a bottomless pit.
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Among innumerable footsteps of divine providence to be found in the works of nature, there is a very remarkable one to be…
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Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.
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The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine…
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The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind…
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Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
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Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.
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Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus."…
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It is impossible for a Die, with such determin'd force and direction, not to fall on such determin'd side, only I don't…
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Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)
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He warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies.
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Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.
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I'll tell you something, Harpy," he said, his voice almost a whisper now. "It never even occurred to me that we wouldn't…
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A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air Burns…
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My beard towards heaven, I feel my nape support / The back of my head, I grow the breast of a harpy…
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If only Paris and the Harpies had gotten along. But Promiscuity had taken one look at the beautiful women and deemed them…
— Gena Showalter
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Shut up," Morgan said, whirling on the woman and pointing the sword at her. "Shut up, you shrill harpy, before I aid…
— Lynn Kurland
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Tabitha blinked innocently. "Why is your consort speaking to me without my having addressed him first?" she asked Kaia. "Have you not…
— Gena Showalter
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You are not Kaia the Disappointment. Do you hear me? That’s what I was trying to tell you earlier. You are Kaia…
— Gena Showalter
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Humans had a saying. Mess with the bull and get the horns. Well, Harpies had a saying, too. Mess with a Harpy…
— Gena Showalter
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Ella is nervous,” the harpy muttered from her perch on the railing. “The elephant. The elephant is watching Ella.
— Rick Riordan
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