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“Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.”

Greater Mountain Ocean Crosses Scales Desert Ease Arrows Calumny Traverse

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement.”

Doe Body Moving Language Greater Feet Intellect Speed Ease Wheels Involvement

Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

“The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.”

Men Way Needs Action Greater Wise He Man Glory Ease Virtuous

Book:Plutarch's Lives

Source: Plutarch's Lives

“The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid,Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.”

Made Greater Paid Debt Ease Slender

Book:The Poetical Works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems

Source: The Poetical Works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems

“The greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection.”

Greater Intellect Ease Misdirection

Book:Mamet Plays: 5: Boston Marriage; Dr Faustus; Romance

Source: Mamet Plays: 5: Boston Marriage; Dr Faustus; Romance

“The first Rudiments of Morality, broach'd by skilful Politicians, to render Men useful to each other as well as tractable, were chiefly contrived that the Ambitious might reap the more Benefit from, and govern vast Numbers of them with the greater Ease and Security.”

Men Firsts Wells Might Numbers Greater Security Politician Morality Benefits Ease Ambitious Reap

Book:The Fable of the Bees

Source: The Fable of the Bees

“If once a woman breaks through the barriers of decency, her ease is desperate; and if she goes greater lengths than the men, and leaves the pale of propriety farther behind her, it is because she is aware that all return is prohibited, and by none so strongly as by her own sex.”

Ifs Men Sex Behinds Break Greater He Man Return Ease Desperate Barriers Length Pale Decency Break Through Propriety

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“Life consists not of a series of illustrious actions or elegant enjoyments. The greater part of our time passes in compliance with necessities, in the performance of daily duties, in the removal of small inconveniences, in the procurement of petty pleasures; and we are well or ill at ease, as the main stream of life glides on smoothly, or is ruffled by small obstacles and frequent interruption.”

Source: The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd

“With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.”

Age Greater Comfort Oneself Ease

Author:Cherie Lunghi

“The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which is a little more important, until they have undermined the whole fabric of the state.”

Giving Littles Important States Whole Government Greater Citizens Giving Up Constitution Ease Fabric

Book:The Essential Aristotle

Source: The Essential Aristotle

“Today the manliest man would be ashamed to look into the eyes of the woman by his side and tell her that he is the master because he could knock her down with perfect ease, and break her bones with much greater facility than she could his. And yet, out of man's brute nature, out of that most ignoble in himself, has come his loudest assumption of superiority, his longest and lowest tyranny.”

Men Looks Would Be Eye Today Sides Perfect Break Greater He Man Masters Bones Tyranny Ease Assumption Ashamed Superiority Lowest Facility Brutes Ignoble

Author:Mary C. Ames