"I venture to maintain that there are multitudes……" — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
"I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful and revolting, that if they could obtain a flesh diet on no other condition, they would relinquish it forever."
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William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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20 Quotes by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than…
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Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last…
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There are some poisons which, before they kill men, allay pain and diffuse a soothing sensation through the frame. We…
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Contraction of theological influence has at once been the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.
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The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human…
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In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.
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There are times in the lives of most of us, when we would have given all the world to be…
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Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of…
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Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of…
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Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.
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The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four…
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The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than…
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More Butcher Quotes
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If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business,…
— Lord Byron
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Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Remember, when you hear them beginning to say "freedom" look carefully-. see who it is they want you to butcher.
— Alex Comfort
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To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening,…
— Charles Dickens
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They are most welcome. We will butcher them.
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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Saddam Hussein also challenged President Bush to a debate. The Butcher of Baghdad vs. the Butcher of the English language.
— Jay Leno
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Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky,…
— Carl Sandburg
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When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure…
— Clint Eastwood
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Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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There was a willow hanging over the mill-pool and I learned to climb it. It belonged to a butcher on…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Never throw a butcher knife in anger.
— Homer
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As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.
— George Bernard Shaw
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