Remark Sentence Examples

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  • His remark stung, as he'd meant it to.

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  • His remark about how she looked in the swimsuit made it obvious that he saw her as something more than a baby sitter or maid.

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  • Maybe he thought her remark was inappropriate.

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  • Already people remark the change in Helen.

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  • Dean ignored the remark and changed the subject.

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  • The latter alone deserves remark.

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  • Obviously his remark was merely a prelude to a lecture.

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  • Peter the footman made some remark to the coachman; the latter assented.

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  • Obviously he wanted to forget his earlier remark about wanting her.

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  • Rob wasn't the first man to make that kind of remark and he probably wouldn't be the last.

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  • It is sufficient to remark here that the presentation of the sacrifice of the mass came to be viewed as the essential priestly office, so that the Christian presbyter really was a sacerdos in the antique sense.

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  • Countess Mary listened till he had finished, made some remark, and in her turn began thinking aloud.

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  • Back and forth smiles were exchanged and there was an instance of a quiet remark, followed by knowing smiles.

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  • You'd better be careful making that kind of remark.

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  • It is a sufficient answer to remark that on this theory the blue would reach its maximum development in the colour of the setting sun.

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  • Nor does the work get further than the analysis of some propositions into noun and verb with " is " added to the predicated verb; an analysis, however, which was a great logical discovery and led Aristotle further to the remark that " is " does not mean " exists "; e.g.

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  • His Lenten sermon to the council, on justification, caused much remark.

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  • It is worthy of remark that Homer names, as adorning the garden of Alcinous, seven plants only - wild olive, oil olive, pear, pomegranate, apple, fig and vine.

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  • It is interesting to remark how this list represents the Greek colonies, from Libya to Sicily, from the Euxine to the Adriatic. Greece proper, on the other hand, is represented only by Megara and Sicyon.

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  • This remark applies especially to the statement of Thomas Ardsruni, 2 that Moses, like his Hebrew prototype, lived to the age of 120 years, and recorded his own death in a fourth book of his great work.

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  • The impression created by the conduct of the Light Brigade was forcibly expressed in Tennyson's well-known ballad, and in spite of the equally celebrated remark of the French general Bosquet, C'est magnifique mais ce n'est pas la guerre, it may be questioned whether the moral effect of the charge did not outweigh the very serious loss in trained men and horses involved.

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  • If, then, this afternoon meal did not include it, Pliny's remark that their food was ordinary and innocent is unintelligible.

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  • One general remark, however, may be made here.

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  • Tombs of saints abound, one or more being found in every town and village; and no traveller up the Nile can fail to remark how every prominent hill has the sepulchre of its patron saint.

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  • One of the audience, with a contemptuous remark, took a handful of pebbles to pelt him with.

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  • Harnack 1 praises Schleiermacher's description of dogmatic as "historical," he rather strains the meaning of the remark, and creates fresh confusion.

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  • The document appears to have been under consideration since the middle of October 1653, but Ludlow says it was "in a clandestine manner carried on and huddled up by two or three persons," a remark probably very near the truth.

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  • The same remark holds good with equal or greater force with respect to the numerous points of mental similarity between the most distinct races of man..

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  • It wasn't the first time he had made a remark that indicated he was less than pleased about the way she dressed.

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  • Plato (Theaetetus, 15 2 E) puts him at the head of the masters of comedy, coupling his name with Homer and, according to a remark in Diogenes Laertius, Plato was indebted to Epicharmus for much of his philosophy.

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  • Dr Johnson is reported to have said that "Walpole was a minister given by the king to the people, but Pitt was a minister given by the people to the king," and the remark correctly indicates Chatham's distinctive place among English statesmen.

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  • But it is more to the purpose to remark that they were harmonized in a personality of potent and enduring force.

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  • The wing is really eccentric in its nature, a remark which applies also to the rowing feathers of the bird's wing.

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  • The preface is, in fact, only a schedule, without any remark by Confucius himself, giving the names of 100 books, of which it consisted.

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  • But when we meet with a casual remark as to the tendency of the Tasmanians to take wives from other tribes than their own, it seems likely that they had some custom of exogamy which the foreigners did not understand.

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  • The soldiers live by plunder, the monks by alms. The haughtiest Abyssinian is not above begging, excusing himself with the remark, "God has given us speech for the purpose of begging."

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  • The remark may serve to remind us of our modern disadvantage for a full appreciation of Demosthenes.

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  • Catalan being a variety of the langue doc, it will be convenient to note the peculiarities of its phonetics and inflexion as compared with ordinary Provenal, Tonic VowelsWith regard to a, which is pronounced alike in open and close syllables (amar, a m a r e; abre, a r b o r), there is nothing to remark.

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  • Most of the other Monocotyledons call for little remark, though among them is an Iris, a Bromelia and a ginger.

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  • Outside of that remark, the ride to the airport was uneventful and they said their goodbyes to Alondra and Felipa, who stayed until they were ready to board the plane.

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  • Hannah used that smile to charm everyone from waiters to potential boyfriends, but it was nice to have her sister smile at her rather than remark about how disappointed she was.

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  • The remark was glad that sour faced brute Conrad did not wait in ambush for conrad behind the door swung open.

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  • Lindsay Hill As a professional huntsman for nearly 25 years, I feel I am well qualified to remark on the benefits of hunting.

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  • Edwina Currie made some remark about wearing an extra jumper which you have taken out of context.

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  • At one of those times, some people found it their duty to remark, what kind of mother is she?

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  • S tudents used the email discussion list to add or elaborate further on a remark made in the seminar.

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  • I came across an item in which someone made a remark about " Deltic " being the first diesel loco.

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  • But the weakness of Orleans was too palpable, and in a famous remark Mirabeau expressed his utter contempt for him.

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  • It may have been a consciousness of this fact which prompted a remark, made by the Speaker, that Mill's presence in parliament elevated the tone of debate.

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  • Most of them are but luxuries, and there is some degree of truth in the remark of Andreas Wagner in his Report on the Progress of Zoology for 1843, drawn up for the Ray Society (p. 60), that they " are not adapted for the extension and promotion of science, but must inevitably, on account of their unnecessary costliness, constantly tend to reduce the number of naturalists who are able to avail themselves of them, and they thus enrich ornithology only to its ultimate injury."

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  • To defend it on the ground that it created and stimulated the national consciousness is hardly reconcilable with the historic remark of the voter who voted against Aristides because he wished to hear no more of his incorruptible integrity; moreover in democratic Athens the "national consciousness" was, if anything, too frequently stimulated in the ordinary course of government.

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  • Carlyle's sarcastic remark on Lacretelle's history of the Revolution, that it " exists, but does not profit much," is partly true of all his books.

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  • As regards Papias's Exposition, which Lightfoot describes as "among the earliest forerunners of commentaries, partly explanatory, partly illustrative, on portions of the New Testament," we need here only remark that, whatever its exact form may have been - as to which the extant fragments still leave room for doubt - it was in conception expository of the historic meaning of Christ's more ambiguous Sayings, viewed in the light of definitely ascertained apostolic traditions bearing on the subject.

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  • But against these considerations it might be urged that a Protestant had no occasion to boast of a harmony most natural to him, while his further remark to the effect that a state church is indispensable, and that those who cannot belong to it on conscientious grounds ought to leave the country rather than show any opposition to its rites, seems rather to indicate the crypto-Catholic. The same conclusion is supported by the fact that Stevinus, a year before his death, bequeathed a pious legacy to the church of Westkerke in Flanders out of the revenues of which masses were to be said.

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  • This remark applies even to the ingenious conjecture of Sprenger, that the letters vax.;.

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  • An embarrassing remark or a self-conscious thought may do the trick.

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  • A remark is in order just here, namely, that the Jewish lobby eventually became more skillful in such matters.

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  • An opposing player makes a snide remark of " Chicken " to the goalkeeper who then strikes the opposing player.

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  • I made the supposition yesterday that the remark was probably deliberate.

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  • In the course of oral argument Lord Hoffmann suggested it had been a " throwaway remark ".

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  • That glib remark about Elvis is unbecoming of a man of your undoubted intelligence and insight Martin.

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  • I did not perceive her sarcastic remark as insensitive. I just thought it was funny!

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  • The tongue-in-cheek remark was not meant to be taken seriously, but Sarah was easily offended.

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  • The fight ended with Isaiah making a homophobic remark about gay cast member T.R.

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  • A friend in the backseat of the SUV that Lohan was riding in said "She's kidding" following Lohan's remark.

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  • Rumors circulated that Ripa's remark was "homophobic," since Aiken has in the past refused to answer questions regarding his sexual orientation.

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  • This remark applies only to bulbs established in the ground, for fresh bulbs are as tender as other Gladioli, and must be protected from frost.

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  • Pun Humor Shirts, cups and hats that feature pun humor usually remark upon age and the conceit of age.

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  • Movie sequences can be skipped for the most part, and the Bard will make a sarcastic remark like "Next!"

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  • Each thing you consume gives you a different amount of stamina, as well as an often hilarious remark from Snake.

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  • The U.S. Post Offices even makes a remark that there is no known legitimate form of this job available.

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  • While the recommended age is 24 months to 8 years-old, many reviewers remark that their 18 month-old loves it just as much.

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  • Customer reviews remark on their high quality and comfy fit, but indicate they are best-suited for small frame women and not for those with heavy bottoms.

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  • As he strode across the room she chanced a last remark.

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  • Carmen ignored his remark.

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  • He turned and brushed past them but his remark was a bright spot in David Dean's day.

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  • She was actually feeling better until that last remark.

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  • The same remark may be made of the rest of the sea-board; for, with the exception of Spencer Gulf, the Gulf of St Vincent and Port Phillip on the south, and Moreton Bay, Hervey Bay and Broad Sound on the east, the coast-line is singularly uniform.

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  • It is from an incidental remark of his own, namely, that the year of the siege of Mount Badon - one of the battles fought between the Saxons and the Britons - was also the year of his own nativity, that the date of his birth has been derived; the place, however, is not mentioned.

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  • We may remark the particular result (-) p + p q!

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  • For a single quantic of the first order (ab) is the symbol of a function of the coefficients which vanishes identically; thus (ab) =a1b2-a2bl= aw l -a1ao=0 and, indeed, from a remark made above we see that (ab) remains unchanged by interchange of a and b; but (ab), = -(ba), and these two facts necessitate (ab) = o.

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  • We will write the cubic covariant (f, i) 2 =j, and then remark that the result, (f,j) 3 = o, can be readily established.

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  • Remark, too, that we are in association with non-unitary symmetric functions of two systems of quantities which will be denoted by partitions in brackets ()a, ()b respectively.

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  • The identity of this work with the Acts of Paul is confirmed by a remark of Hippolytus in his commentary on Daniel iii.

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  • This remark, when it was spoken, passed unnoticed, being indeed nothing more than one of the commonplaces of party warfare.

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  • But a few weeks before, Mr Drummond, who was Sir Robert Peel's private secretary, had been shot dead in the street by a lunatic. In consequence of this, and the manifold anxieties of the time with which he was harassed, the mind of the great statesman was no doubt in a moody and morbid condition, and when he arose to speak later in the evening, he referred in excited and agitated tones to the remark, as an incitement to violence against his person.

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  • It is scarcely necessary to remark that in all such cases the calculation applies in the first instance to homogeneous light, and that, in accordance with Fourier's theorem, each homogeneous component of a mixture may be treated separately.

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  • This remark applies, it is true, chiefly to the portion which begins at lii.

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  • C. Lea, " dismiss the religious changes incident to the Reformation with the remark that they were not the object sought, but the means for attaining the object.

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  • We must be content to treat the aether as a plenum, which places it in a class by itself; and we can thus recognize that it may behave very differently from matter, though in some manner consistent with itself - a remark which is fundamental in the modern theory.

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  • Both Zeller and Hegel remark upon the difference between the calm of ancient scepticism and the perturbed state of mind evinced by many modern sceptics.

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  • At the same time many of the Central-American customs differed from the Mexican; thus in Yucatan we find the custom of the youths sleeping in a great bachelor's house, an arrangement common in various parts of the world, but not in Mexico; the same remark applies to the.

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  • With regard to Ecgbert the word is doubtless given as a title in imitation of its earlier use, and the same remark applies to its use in ZEthelstan's charter.

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  • What is true in this remark lies partly in the fact that scholarship in Aldo's days had flown beyond the Alps, where a new growth of erudition, on a basis different.

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  • It is almost superfluous to remark, first, that Hume here deliberately gives up his fundamental principle that ideas are but the fainter copies of impressions, for it can never be maintained that order of disposition is an impression, and, secondly, that he fails to offer any explanation of the mode in which coexistence and succession are possible elements, of cognition in a conscious experience made up of isolated presentations and representations.

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  • The leaves show a remark the carpel of the same or another flower.

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  • The main argument of the Transcendentalphilosophie not only drew from Kant, who saw it in MS., the remark that Maimon alone of his all critics had mastered the true meaning of his philosophy, but also directed the path of most subsequent criticism.

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  • This tale is now regarded as legendary, and the same remark also applies to the tradition that the cries Hi Welfen, hi Wibelinen, were first raised at this siege.

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  • In these tribes the bold and active habits, the striking colours, or the fantastic diversities of structure,have so long attracted remark that recent investigations, while adding a multitude of new species and supplying the specialist with an infinity of new details, have not materially altered the scientific standpoint.

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  • It was in reference to this speech that he made the oft-quoted remark that he "would rather be right than be president."

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  • That his adherence to the royal party was already noticed and commented on appears from the significant remark 1 In October 1608 he became treasurer of Gray's Inn.

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  • The Midrash given by Neubauer has no doubts on this point, as the story is immediately followed by the remark - "Behold we learn how great is the power of alms and tithes!"

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  • This remark, though suggested by the state of society in ancient Greece, is largely applicable throughout the world until the close of the early middle ages.

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  • Huxley has illustrated the futility of "close-time" in his remark that the prohibition of taking oysters from an oyster-bed during four months of the year is not the slightest security against its being stripped clean during the other eight months.

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  • We cannot, therefore, agree with Dr Salmon's remark that the only reason why Justin attributed magic to Simon of Gitta was because of his identifying him with Simon Magus.

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  • As Arsinoe had been married three times, it is thought that she might have been offended by this remark.

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  • In the latter winds Sorrento should be especially avoided, as no safe anchorage can be found there at less than 15 fathoms, and the same remark applies to Capri with winds from S.W.

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  • This consists of brief didactic chapters, or more properly paragraphs, of practical direction or critical remark on all the branches and conditions of a painter's practice.

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  • The same remark would apply to the charges for passenger conveyance and goods freight made by governments which carry on railway business, as in Prussia, India and the Australian states.

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  • To secure Walachian help, Ypsilanti advanced on Bucharest, but the prince, Theodore Vladimirescu, who represented the national Ruman reaction against the Phanariotes, repulsed his overtures with the remark " that his business was not to march against the Turks, but to clear the country of Phanariotes."

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  • In a speech in the Senate defending Van Buren against an attack by Henry Clay, Marcy made the unfortunate remark that " to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy," and thereby became widely known as a champion of the proscription of political opponents.

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  • Having made this remark, we must distinguish between the countries which are still subject to the system of concordats and other countries.

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  • Charles made the malicious remark that nothing was safe from Don John - not even vermin.

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  • Non invideo equidem, miror magis, was Johnson's good-natured remark, when he was taken over his friend's fine house and pleasant gardens.

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  • His indifference to works of art and ignorance of their value is shown by his well-known remark to those who contracted for the shipment of the treasures of Corinth to Rome, that "if they lost or damaged them, they would have to replace them."

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  • On this point Hume contents himself with the vague remark that " there are a numerous set of passions and sentiments, of which thinking rational beings are by the original constitution of nature the only proper objects."

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  • Yet the critic's remark was not so pointless as Macaulay thought it.

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  • Many stories have been told about his childhood, for example the remark which Napoleon I.

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  • The seasons are two - the hot and rainy season from November to April, and the cool and dry season during the rest of the year; this remark applies chiefly to the interior, for rain falls throughout the year on the eastern coast, which is exposed to the vapour-laden south-east trade winds.

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  • And it is important to remark that the protagonists of iconoclasm in Byzantium came from these lands where image cult offended the deepest religious instincts of the masses.

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  • Upon waking, Darby donned the new apparel without remark or even apparent notice.

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  • May I remark briefly on his little cameo of myself?

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  • I remark you the Korean War that came after I wrote the original chronicle in 1945.. .

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  • His remark about not crucifying Christ anew speaks for itself.

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  • A grain of anger or a grain of suspicion produces strange acoustical effects, and makes the ear greedy to remark offense.

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  • It was a very maternal remark, the kind made when an obstreperous boy had repeated a question for the hundredth time.

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  • I might fitly let the matter pass without remark, were it not needful to rectify a grave misrepresentation.

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  • There is one other remark of a general kind which it seems needful to make.

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  • I was left open-mouthed by the remark and hoped this apparent blind spot would prove temporary.

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  • However, his remark has become more pertinent in recent years.

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  • But Terry Eagleton makes a remark on contemporary theory that is hardly reconcilable to what Jameson says here.

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  • The drunk made a racist remark, then suddenly lashed out at the trio.

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  • But the funny remark made with apparent sincerity was not the only weapon in her humorous armory.

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  • You remark on just how much torque they've got, and you break into a grin that would make a Cheshire cat look sullen.

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  • This remark applies to the finding of the area of a parabolic segment (mechanical solution) and of a spiral, the surface and volume of a sphere and of a segment thereof, and the volume of any segments of the solids of revolution of the second degree.

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  • At the new years reception of deputies King Humbert aroused enthusiasm by a significant remark that Italy intended to remain mistress in her own house; while Mancirfi addressed to Count de Launay, Italian ambassador in Berlin, a haughty despatch, repudiating the supposition that the pope might (as Bismarckian emissaries had suggested to the Vatican) obtain abroad greater spiritual liberty than in Rome, or that closer relations between Italy and Germany, such as were required by the interests and aspirations of the two countries, could be made in any way contingent upon a modification of Italian freedom of action in regard to home affairs.

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  • Even then he did not give up his interest in state and local affairs, and his end is said to have been hastened by a fit of passion brought on by a remark of the quaestor Granius, who openly asserted that he would escape payment of a sum of money due to the Romans, since Sulla was on his death-bed.

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  • Although he had in 1687 openly embraced the Roman Catholic faith, he hesitated to commit himself entirely to the acts of the fierce devotees who surrounded the king, whom he advised to reverse the arbitrary acts of the last year or two, and in October 1688 he was dismissed by James with the remark "I hope you will be more faithful to your next master than you have been to me."

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  • In reference to his preparation of oxygen he says, "It provides a striking illustration of a remark I have more than once made in my philosophical writings and which can hardly be too often repeated, viz.

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  • The points of collision were especially at Rome, in Africa, and in the Rhone Valley, and the struggle was the more obstinate because of the resemblances between the two religions, which were so numerous and so close as to be the subject of remark as early as the 2nd century, and the cause of mutual recrimination.

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  • In a fine bit of realism we are told how Gaal observed the approaching foe and was told by Zebul, "You see the shadow of the hills as men," and as they drew nearer Zebul's ironical remark became a taunt, "Where is now thy mouth ?

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  • Perhaps it may be sufficient to remark that the defects in question certainly exist, and detract to some extent from the authority of the work, more especially of those parts of it which deal with remoter periods, and were taken by Herodotus on trust from his informants, but that they only slightly affect the portions which treat of later times and form the special subject of his history.

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  • Of the former we cannot speak here (see Hittites), except so far as to remark the Abd-Ashirta and his son Aziru, though at first afraid of the Hatti, was afterwards clever enough to make a treaty with their king, and, with other external powers, to attack the districts which remained loyal to Egypt.

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  • He resented Shinshin's remark.

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  • She did not know what to say and turned away as if she had not heard his remark.

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  • Kutuzov made no rejoinder or remark.

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  • That scurrilous remark was made to try to blight the credibility of the party that I serve.

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  • He earned a quick look from Cynthia, but the remark hit home.

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  • Jackson snarled, "You're one smart ass remark away from a dirt nap, Skippy!"

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  • Had it not been for a chance remark, Katie wouldn't have been aware of her ignorance.

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  • On the present occasion it was evidently regarded as quite a formal and introductory matter, and the same remark applies to the general grant of liberties to all freemen and their heirs, with which the chapter concludes.

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  • The commissioners on criminal law (sixth report) remark that "although the law forbids all denial of the being and providence of God or the Christian religion, it is only when irreligion assumes the form of an insult to God and man that the interference of the criminal law has taken place."

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  • It is unnecessary to remark that in the British colonies the Jews everywhere enjoy full citizenship. In fact, the colonies emancipated the Jews earlier than did the mother country.

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  • We may remark that fleas possess no wings, but are understood to possess a true pupa.

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  • His short tenure of this office calls for no remark.

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  • Here we pause to remark that in Tertullian's view the church as a whole possesses the power of self-government and administration, though in the interest of discipline and convenience it delegates that power to special officers.

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  • Certainly, however, in historical times the division holds good, and it is worthy of remark that one of the points about the northern barbarians which struck the ancient Greeks and Romans most forcibly was the fact that they wore trousers.

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  • After Hippocrates the progress of medicine in Greece does not call for any special remark in such a sketch as this, but mention must be made of one great name.

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  • But meeting his old enemy Beauregard in one of the minister's rooms and making an offensive remark, he was waylaid by Beauregard some time after in a less privileged place and soundly beaten.

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  • It is worthy of remark that of these schools 29 were Mahommedan, and that there were 176 schools for girls in which upwards of 2000 pupils were taught.

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  • Maitland's Domesday Book and Beyond (Cambridge, 1897) is indispensarle; and the same remark applies to his History of English Law before the time of Edward I.

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  • First of all she could not fail to remark the increasing discontent withaher arbitrary and wasteful ways.

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  • Only the interest of the matter prevents one from thinking of Rivarol's ill-natured remark upon Condorcet, that he wrote with opium on a page of lead.

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  • Yet Coleridge was perfectly just in his remark; and the metrical anarchy of the "Madelines" and "Adelines" of the 1830 volume showed that Tennyson, with all his delicacy of modulation, had not yet mastered the arts of verse.

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  • Uchiura (Volcan Bay), Nemui-o (Walfisch) Bay and Ishikari Bay are the only remark able inlets.

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  • The same remark would hold true in regard to the social and political effects of emigration.

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  • The novel fact that a master of the Romans should have been born on Spanish soil seems to have passed with little remark, and this absence of notice is significant.

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  • Savary expresses preference for this second plan, and makes the pertinent remark that in both these models " the rays of red light in the two solar images will be next to each other, which will render the sun's disk more easy to be observed than the violet ones."

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  • There are obvious points of similarity, possibly of derivation, between the details in our text and the above myths, but the subject cannot be further pursued here, save that we remark that in the sun myth the dragon tries to kill the mother before the child's birth, whereas in our text it is after his birth, and that neither in the Egyptian nor in the Greek myth is there any mention of the flight into the wilderness.

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  • This remark is probably a later gloss.

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  • Smith was among the latter; Karl Knies and others justly remark on the masterly sketches of this kind which occur in the Wealth of Nations.

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  • On this will we may remark that Proxenus is said to have been Aristotle's guardian after the death of his father, and to have been the father of Nicanor; that Herpyllis of Stagira was the mother of Nicomachus by Aristotle; and that Arimnestus was the brother of Aristotle, who also had a sister, Arimneste.

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  • How far Edward's solicitude was disinterested may be gauged from Froissart's parallel remark about the battle of Aljubarrota, where, as at Agincourt, the handful of victors were obliged by a sudden panic to slay their prisoners.

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  • It is interesting to remark that the simple result found in equation (25) (according to which the effect of the deviation of the vapour from the ideal state is represented by the addition of the term (c-b)/V to the expression for log p) is independent of the assumption that c varies inversely as the n th power of 9, and is true generally provided that c-b is a function of the temperature only and is independent of the pressure.

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  • Krauss's remark, that " Boroevic had saved the Italian III.

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  • It is worthy of remark, in this respect, that - in accordance with Ramanuja's and Nimbarka's philosophical theories - Jayadeva's presentation of Krishna's fickle love for Radha is usually interpreted in a mystical sense, as allegorically depicting the human soul's striving, through love, for reunion with God, and its ultimate attainment, after many backslidings, of the longed-for goal.

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  • He animadverted strongly upon the puerile nature of the defence, and in answer to a remark by Essex, that if he had wished to stir up a rebellion he would have had a larger company with him, pointed out that his dependence was upon the people of London, and compared his attempt to that of the duke of Guise at Paris.

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  • The remark finds ample application in the case of Schopenhauer.

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  • It is a just remark of Thackeray's that he everywhere half-consciously recognizes her as his better angel, and dwells on her wit and her tenderness with a fondness he never exhibits for any other topic. On the 28th of January 1728, she died, and her wretched lover sat down the same night to record her virtues in language of unsurpassed simplicity, but to us who know the story more significantly for what it conceals than for what it tells.

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  • It is sufficient here to remark that the author, even then a man of great erudition, must have been aware of the turn which taxonomy was taking; but, not being able to divest himself of the older notion that external characters were superior to those furnished by the study of internal structure, and that Comparative Anatomy, instead of being a part of zoology, was something distinct from it, he seems to have endeavoured to form a scheme which, while not running wholly counter to the teachings of Comparative Anatomists, should yet rest ostensibly on external characters.

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  • To each of them he made some careless and agreeable remark except to Pierre and Helene, whose presence he seemed not to notice.

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  • Vera's remark was correct, as her remarks always were, but, like most of her observations, it made everyone feel uncomfortable, not only Sonya, Nicholas, and Natasha, but even the old countess, who--dreading this love affair which might hinder Nicholas from making a brilliant match-- blushed like a girl.

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  • He sometimes noticed with dissatisfaction that he repeated the same remark on the same day in different circles.

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  • The conversation was resumed, and no longer in the unpleasantly hostile tone of Nicholas' last remark.

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  • I felt it, and still remark it almost daily in my walks, for by it hangs the history of a family.

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  • Escaping from her father she ran to hide her flushed face in the lace of her mother's mantilla--not paying the least attention to her severe remark--and began to laugh.

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  • The officer of the suite ventured to remark to the prince that if these battalions went away, the guns would remain without support.

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  • It seemed to Prince Andrew that the officer's remark was just and that really no answer could be made to it.

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  • An elderly sergeant who had approached the officer while he was giving these explanations had waited in silence for him to finish speaking, but at this point, evidently not liking the officer's remark, interrupted him.

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  • Though people were afraid of Marya Dmitrievna she was regarded in Petersburg as a buffoon, and so of what she had said they only noticed, and repeated in a whisper, the one coarse word she had used, supposing the whole sting of her remark to lie in that word.

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  • No one replied to this remark and for some time they all gazed silently at the spreading flames of the second fire in the distance.

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  • Maybe it was anger that prompted him to make the remark about her spending his money, but he never apologized about it specifically.

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  • Outside of his remark about her swimsuit, and the two kisses he had forced on her, he had shown no special interest in her.

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  • Sasha left without even a smartass remark, and Rhyn rose, gazing with interest across the hall.

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  • It was probably best to ignore the remark, and she was able to do so without being rude when the doorbell rang.

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  • It is by no means certain that he made the remark often attributed to him, "Let us enjoy the papacy since God has given it to us," but there is little doubt that he was by nature devoid of moral earnestness or deep religious feeling.

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  • We may remark in passing that the retreat was often enlivened, or invaded, by friendly tourists from England, whose " frequent incursions " into Switzerland our recluse seems half to lament as an evil.

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  • In 1870 was founded the United Synagogue, which is a metropolitan organization, and the same remark applies to the more recent Federation of Synagogues.

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  • Morgan sums up a discussion on Lubbock's experiments in which the ants failed to utilize particles of earth for bridge-making, with the suggestive remark that " What these valuable experiments seem to show is that the ant, probably the most intelligent of all insects, has no claim to be regarded as a rational being."

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  • Firstly we may remark that the Austrian alliance furnished one of the motives which led him to refrain during the campaign of 1812 from reconstituting the Polish realm in its ancient extent.

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  • Under the most splendid house in the city is still to be found the cellar where they store their roots as of old, and long after the superstructure has disappeared posterity remark its dent in the earth.

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  • To a proposal made by General Campan (who was to attack the fleches) to lead his division through the woods, Napoleon agreed, though the so-called Duke of Elchingen (Ney) ventured to remark that a movement through the woods was dangerous and might disorder the division.

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  • Nicholas glanced at her and, wishing to appear not to notice her abstraction, made some remark to Mademoiselle Bourienne and then again looked at the princess.

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  • With the exception of an occasional remark or look, her daughters obeyed.

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  • His remark punctured a hole in her thin armor and she exploded, slamming the papers onto her desktop so hard that one of the pages floated to the floor.

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  • Only a few papers and works can be mentioned here, with the remark that few authors have paid attention to the all-important innervation of the muscles.

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  • This was true enough, but there is truth also in the remark of Prof. Sanday ("Eucharist" in Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible) that Providence even in its revolutions is conservative.

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  • Moreover, the author goes on to remark that in adult birds trace of the origin of the sternum from five centres of ossification is always more or less indicated by sutures, and that, though these sutures had been generally regarded as ridges for the attachment of the sternal muscles, they indeed mark the extreme points of the five primary bony pieces of the sternum.

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  • For the rest his classification demands no particular remark; but that in a work of this kind he had the courage to recognize, for instance, such a fact as the essential difference between swallows and swifts lifts him considerably above the crowd of other ornithological writers of his time.

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  • No other items in the budget call for special remark, but in order that the information given may be complete, each head of expenditure is shown separately below, and the budget for 1910-1911, as first placed before the Turkish parliament, presents the following picture, from which it may be observed that the public debt absorbs 26% of the revenue, war service 38% and civil services 36%.

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  • The very fact that the nineteenth century has not produced many authors whom the world may count among the greatest of all time does not in my opinion justify the remark, "There may come a time when people cease to write."

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