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• A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house. — Aeschylus
• And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil.… — Geraldine Brooks
• Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths,… — Ariel Dorfman
• Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries. — Henry Wotton
• Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it… — Sofia Kovalevskaya
• A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a… — William Hazlitt
• Newton's work on gravity led to the discovery of the Lagrange point, a place where opposing forces cancel one another… — Nick Harkaway
• Amity Gaige has written a flawless book. It does not contain a single false note. Playful and inventive, SCHRODER movingly… — Unknown Author
• The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place… — Plautus
• I undertake my scientific research with the confident assumption that the earth follows the laws of nature which God established… — Unknown Author
• Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they… — Samuel Johnson
• God, we are told, is willing to render himself inconsistent and ridiculous, to confound the curiosity of those whom, we… — Baron d'Holbach

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