"I may not practice what I preach but……" — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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• Forbid us something, and that thing we desire. — Geoffrey Chaucer
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• I do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a… — James Rollins
• God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains.… — Mahatma Gandhi
• Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which… — Thomas Jefferson
• Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would… — George Washington
• Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in… — George Washington

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