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The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is… — William Wordsworth
In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitous man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of… — Charles Dickens
Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win… — D. H. Lawrence
My faith in humanity leads me to believe that people are looking for something more elevating than the sordid details of the intimate aspects of… — Ginger Rogers
Ugly reports and conversations are always available to those who would promote the sordid and sensational. None of us are yet perfect. We each have… — Marvin J. Ashton
The tax that was supposed to soak the rich has instead soaked America. The beneficiary of the income tax has not been the poor, but… — Paul Craig Roberts
The day before yesterday always has been a glamour day. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time colors history as it does a meerschaum pipe. — Vincent Starrett
But I keep going on with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear… — Margaret Atwood
Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to… — Walter Scott
For what will it profit men that a more prudent distribution and use of riches make it possible for them to gain even the whole… — Pope Pius XI
Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing,… — Edna Ferber
You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could… — Peter De Vries
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest. — Moliere
New York is the city of privilege. Here is the seat of the Invisible Power represented by the allied forces of finance and industry. This… — William Jennings Bryan
I have a sordid past. — Dar Williams
I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and… — Mae Whitman
My brother went on to have a long and sordid career. — Darrell Issa
The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded,… — C.S. Lewis
Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the… — Oscar Wilde
I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow [perhaps William Lowndes], who used to say, `Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take… — Lord Chesterfield
What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head, Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed; Where the rug's two-fold use we might display, By… — Oliver Goldsmith
I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer one. I have always found that to strive with a superior is injurious; with an equal,… — Joseph Hall
Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men… — Claude Adrien Helvetius
Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the… — George Farquhar

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