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“When, to gratify a private appetite, it is once resolved upon that an ignorant and helpless creature shall be sacrificed, it is an easy matter to pick up sticks enough from any thicket where it has strayed, to make a fire to offer it up with.”

Matter Enough Easy Fire Offers Creatures Picks Sticks Ignorant Spite Appetite Helpless Thickets

Author:Laurence Sterne

“Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.”

World Firsts Littles Long Lasts Society Offers Creatures Stones Series Hills Pushing Our World Valleys Repose Uprising Moles Ridges Sisyphus

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“I think I am much too valuable a creature to offer myself to a German bullet gratis and for fun.”

Thinking Fun Offers Creatures Valuable Bullets

Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“In Christ, we become new creatures. His life becomes ours. Take that word 'life' and turn it over and over and press it and try to measure it, and see what it will yield. Eternal life is a magnificent idea which comprises everything the heart can yearn after. Do not your hearts yearn for this life, this blessed and eternal life, which the Son of God so freely offers?”

Trying Heart Ideas Life Is Turns Christ Son Offers Creatures Eternal Blessed Presses This Life Yield Magnificent Eternal Life

Author:Mary Slessor

“As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that offers for the middle-aged or elderly writer whose thoughts should more properly be turned to graver matters, occupying himself with the trivial concerns of imaginary people.”