"A heap of epithets is poor praise: the……" — Jean de la Bruyere

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• As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet. — Wyndham Lewis
• I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow… — John Stuart Mill
• If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one… — Robert Green Ingersoll
• They that go down to the sea in ships' see strange things, but what they tell is oft-times stranger still.… — Gertrude Bacon
• Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense. — Robert Green Ingersoll
• If a man knows precisely what he can do to you or what epithet he can hurl against you in… — Howard Thurman
• Sycamore trees were held to be sacred in ancient Egypt and are the first trees represented in ancient art. The… — Larry Gates
• The use of 'conspiracy theory' as a derogatory - as an epithet almost - is something the propagandists have perfected… — Chris Sanders
• The modern revisionists and reactionaries call us Stalinists, thinking that they insult us and, in fact, that is what they… — Enver Hoxha
• Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on… — Oscar Romero
• Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them… — Carolyn Heilbrun
• Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded… — Alberto Manguel

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