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  • When I am living in the Midlands That are sodden and unkind.

    - (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre Belloc
      'The South Country'.

  • How is it possible to sayan unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world!

    - Nathaniel Hawthorne
      The Marble Faun, ch.12.

  • Respectability is a very good thing in its way, but it does not rise superior to all considerations. I would not for a moment venture to hint that it was a matter of taste; but I think I will go as far as this: that if a position is admittedly unkind, uncomfortable, unnecessary, and superfluously useless, although it were as respectableasthe Church of England, the sooner a man is out of it, the better for himself, and all concerned.

    - Robert Louis Stevenson
      An InlandVoyage,'At Maubeuge'.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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