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• "But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a mother's love, or the comfort of a home; that ill-usage and blows, or the want of bread, may have driven him to herd with men who have forced him to guilt. Aunt, dear aunt, for mercy's sake, think of this, before you let them drag this sick child to a prison, which in any case must be the grave of all his chances of amendment."

  Charles Dickens

  Mother, Nature, Children

  Charles Dickens (2017). “The Charles Dickens Collection Volume One: Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and Bleak House”, p.251, Open Road Media

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• There is something indefinably keen and wan about her anatomy, and she has a watchful way of looking out of the corners of her eyes without turning her head which could be pleasantly dispensed with, especially when she is in an ill humour and near knives. Through all the good taste of her dress and little adornments, these objections so express themselves that she seems to go about like a very neat she-wolf imperfectly tamed.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Eye, Knives

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak house. [20 numbers in 19 monthly pts., orig. wrappers.].”, p.111

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• Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Kindred, Members

  Charles Dickens (1873). “Oliver Twist. Great expectations”

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• I have had my share of sorrows-more than the common lot, perhaps, but I have borne them ill. I have broken where I should have bent; and have mused and brooded, when my spirit should have mixed with all God's great creation.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Should Have, Broken

  Charles Dickens (1858). “Hard Times”, p.169

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• A child playing with dolls may shed heartfelt tears when his bundle of rags and scraps becomes deathly ill and dies ... So we may come to an understanding of language as playing with dolls: in language, scraps of sound are used to make dolls and replace all the things in the world.

  Velimir Khlebnikov

  Children, Poetry, Understanding

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• My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.

  Nicholas A. Christakis

  Growing Up, Thinking, Parent

  "Fifteen Questions with Nicholas A. Christakis". Interview with Stephanie M. Woo, www.thecrimson.com. October 20, 2011.

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• A lot of people give up, but you cant stop me. If you close the door, Ill just jump out the window.

  Diane Warren

  Giving Up, Doors, People

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• I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. Ill take an angry moose any day.

  Don Kardong

  Moose, Disease, Tick

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• Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet todays surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.

  Ralph Merkle

  Ill Health, Damage, Tools

  "Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future". Interview with John Gehl, ubiquity.acm.org. July 2000.

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• In the works of Lucretius, we find two reasons why we shouldn't worry about death. If you have had a successful life, Lucretius tell us, there's no reason to mind its end. And, if you haven't had a good time, "Why do you seek to add more years, which would also pass but ill?"

  Alain de Botton

  Successful, Years, Two

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• Ill often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours.

  Thayer David

  Couple, Dark, Shadow

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• It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Philosopher, Influential, Mystery

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.77, Institute of GS

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• A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing armaments, of shortening tempers--a situation which has in it many of the elements that lead to the tragedy of general war.... Peace is threatened by those who seek selfish power.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Selfish, War, Ill Will

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.9, Best Books on

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• It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Family, Mother, Children

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• The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was.

  Mark Twain

  Church Choir, Atheism, Forgotten

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer: The NewSouth Edition”, p.32, NewSouth Books

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• Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Evil, Scary, Temptation

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• Religion is a powerful weapon that can be used because it persuades people to do things. And thus it can be used for good or ill. But it should not be a powerful weapon at all.

  Richard Dawkins

  Powerful, People, Weapons

  "Interview: Richard Dawkins Keeps Making New Enemies". Interview with Isaac Chotiner, newrepublic.com. October 29, 2013.

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• In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens, a substantial part of its whole population, who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life. I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Progress, Population

  Second Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1937

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• Others form man; I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Fashion, Men, Self

  Michel de Montaigne (2003). “The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters”, Everyman's Library

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• Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?" Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Running, Time, Men

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• Come hither, all ye empty things,
  Ye bubbles rais'd by breath of Kings;
  Who float upon the tide of state,
  Come hither, and behold your fate.
  Let pride be taught by this rebuke,
  How very mean a thing's a Duke;
  From all his ill-got honours flung,
  Turn'd to that dirt from whence he sprung.

  Jonathan Swift

  Kings, Mean, Fate

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan (1812). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift...”, p.283

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• Psychiatrists say that 1 of 4 people are mentally ill. Check 3 friends. If they are okay, you're it.

  Henny Youngman

  God, People, Stupidity

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• The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and never get over their astonishment at the ingratitude and selfishness of their contemporaries.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, People, Selfishness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.14

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• The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For...
  
  things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Book, Simple, Men

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• If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing. It would take us as long to recall a space of time as it took the original time to elapse, and we should never get ahead with our thinking. All recollected times undergo, accordingly, what M. Ribot calls foreshortening; and this foreshortening is due to the omission of an enormous number of facts which filled them.

  William James

  Thinking, Numbers, Space

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