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He was the mildest mannered man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat, With such true breeding of a gentleman, You never could divine his real thought.
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He was the mildest manner'd manThat ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.

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— Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto III, Stanza 41.

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If good music has charms to soothe the savage breast, bad music has no less powerful spells for filling the mildest breast with rage, the happiest with horror and disgust. Oh, those mammy songs, those love longings, those loud hilarities! How was it possible that human emotions intrinsically decent could be so ignobly parodied.

aldous huxley

— “Silence is Golden,” p. 59

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In the 1990's, a time of corporate capital's global ascendancy, the mildest restraints on its prerogatives have been peremptorily rejected. Automatically, under this designation, measures to protect national cultural industries, for example, have been ruled unacceptable infringements of "free trade".

herbert schiller

— Chapter Two, Visions Of Global Electronic Mastery, p. 80

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The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil war in which the opposing armies are counted and the victory is awarded to the larger before any blood is shed. Except in the sacred tests of democracy and in the incantations of the orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force.


— Walter Lippmann, “Why Should the Majority Rule?” Harper’s Magazine (New York, 1926)

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He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.

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— Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto III, Stanza 41.

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The mildest manners with the bravest mind.


— Homer, The Iliad, Book XXIV, line 963. Pope's translation.

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The mildest manners and the gentlest heart.


— Homer, The Iliad, Book XVII, line 756. Pope's translation.

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[S]uch infants as quit the body without being baptized will be involved in the mildest condemnation of all. That person, therefore, greatly deceives both himself and others, who teaches that they will not be involved in condemnation[.]


— Augustine of Hippo, (415–16), St. Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings.

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