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“It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.”

Evil Natural Loss Easier Gains All Things Harder Prejudice Proof Bias

Author:Augustus Hare

“Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.”

Feels Sometimes Loss Prejudice Vigor

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.”

Feelings Loss Laughing Pride Prejudice Cried

Book:Blaine Josten's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Annotated)

Source: Blaine Josten's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Annotated)

“There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia that one is at a loss whether to treat it with gravity or with raillery; whether to consider it as a mere trial of skill, like the paradoxes of rhetoricians; as a disingenuous artifice to instil prejudices at any price; or as the serious.”

Ideas Loss Liberty Danger Serious Arms Skills Treats Prejudice Mere Trials Paradox Gravity Extravagant Militia Artifice Disingenuous

Book:The federalist papers

Source: The federalist papers

“The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse of all the trusts committed to a Government, because they can be concealed or disclosed, or disclosed in such parts and at such times as will best suit particular views; and because the body of the people are less capable of judging, and are more under the influence of prejudices, on that branch of their affairs, than of any other. Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.”

Source: James Madison's

“Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.”

Source: Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes

“Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.”

Religion Loss Company Prejudice Innocence Bad Company

Author:Denis Diderot

“The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.”

War Loss Millions Too Much Crime Emotional Six Accounts Prejudice Data Defeated Testimony Exaggerated Biased Reckoning War Crimes

Author:Franjo Tuđman