"Your offer," he said, "is far too idiotic…" — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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• Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined. — James Joyce
• In the eyes of history, religious toleration is the highest evidence of culture in a people. It was not until… — Marmaduke Pickthall
• But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know… — Irene Dunne
• The need for civility in society has never been more important. The foundation of kindness and civility begins in our… — Quentin L. Cook
• I quickly said that because of my loyalty to Star Trek, and also just being a fan, I wouldn’t even… — J. J. Abrams
• The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was… — John Thorn
• I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of… — Edward Abbey
• Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the… — Sinclair Lewis
• I've declined every congressional benefit I could decline, federal health insurance, the retirement program, the 403(b) program, which I think… — Scott Rigell

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