"The word knight, which originally meant boy or……" — Thomas Bulfinch

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• It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public… — Charles Babbage
• There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for… — Charles Babbage
• Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves. — Ezra Taft Benson
• It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were… — Lionel Blue
• It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can… — Nicolas Chamfort
• You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for… — C.S. Lewis
• Sixty percent of our immigrants are admitted merely because they have relatives here. Many of these people are not immediate… — Ronald Reagan
• I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and… — C.S. Lewis
• Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question. — Johannes Kepler
• You're not supposed to be admitted to America if you're likely to be a charge on the public - if… — Jeff Sessions
• I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull. — W. Somerset Maugham
• What you see is from outside yourself, and may come, or not, but is beyond your control. But your fear… — Marion Zimmer Bradley

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