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Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.

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MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded as theology's noblest contribution to the development of our language.

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... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.

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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

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The cyber world is sort of the Wild, Wild West, and to some degree, we're asked to be the sheriff.

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We have all lost touch with life, we all limp, each to a greater or lesser degree.

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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

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Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

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The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

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I call that law universal, which is conformable merely to dictates of nature; for there does exist naturally an universal sense of right and wrong, which, in a certain degree, all intuitively divine, even should no intercourse with each other, nor any compact have existed.

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Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.

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I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.

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It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.

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JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

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Although I may express myself with some degree of pleasantry the purport of my words is entirely serious.

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Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.

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The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.

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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.

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Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees.

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If some institution wants to sell you a billion dollars worth of mortgages, they might have to sell 100 million in the market, and then you'll buy the other 900 million on the same terms. Now, the very fact that this has been authorized or will be authorized, I hope, will firm up the market to some degree. And that's fine. But you don't want to have artificial prices being paid.

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