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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts. – Edmund Burke	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them. – Jean Cocteau	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. – H Hahn Blavatsky	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine if you can make him believe that those who reject that doctrine are doomed to eternal perdition if you then give that man power, and by means of his ignorance blind him to the ulterior consequences of his own act,-he will infallibly persecute those who deny his doctrine. – Henry Thomas Buckle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind- the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other that has always been my firm faith about friendship. – Marie Dressler	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them. – Harold S. Geneen	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true by the philosopher, as equally false and by the magistrate, as equally useful. – Edward Gibbon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors. – William Ralph Inge	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change. – Marcel Proust	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. – Thomas Szasz	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office. – Quintus Fabius Maximus	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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dark and gloomy

A inexpiable

B lank

C bibulous

D tenebrous