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«You cannot make a pair of croak-voiced Daleks appear benevolent even if you dress one of them in an Armani suit and call the other Marmaduke»
«The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
assassination, benevolent, good temper, government, occasional, tempered, tempering, tyrannies, tyranny
«To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature»
Author: Adam Smith
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Mankind
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affections, benevolent, constitute, restrain, selfishness
«Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.»
Author: Garrison Keillor
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benevolent, cornerstone, cornerstones, frighten, gaze, look upon, nearsighted, rearing, saddle, saddling, selective, surveillance, tall, troops
«The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.»
«The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish: it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.»
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
(Author, Novelist)
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benevolent, contemplative, draws, generates, pipe, shuts, The Philosopher, thoughtful, unaffected
«The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.»
Author: William McKinley
(Politician)
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assimilation, benevolent, mission, Mission of, The Mission
«The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection»
Author: William Dean Howells
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Affection
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benevolent, commands, conqueror, regarded, The conqueror
«The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
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benevolent, despot, despots, Others The, shepherd, submissiveness
«The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.»
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