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Whoever the kid had been, whoever had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: "You just change your attitude now please, young man." This transformation in kids — from flashing dragonflies, so to say, to sticky water-surface worms slowly slipping downstream — is noticed with pride by society and with mortification by God, which is a fantastic way of saying I don't like to see kids throw away their truth just because it isn't worth a dime in the open market.
William Saroyan
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An English peer of the right sort can be bored nearer to the point where mortification sets in, without showing it, than anyone else in the world.

Plum

— 1915  Something Fresh, ch.3.

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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.

jonathan edwards

— Diary (1723)

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It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. Art is only the under-workman, and is employed to give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces, which come from the hand of the master

David Hume

— Essay 15 : The Epicurean

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I have the mortification to inform your Excellency that I have been forced to... surrender the troops under my command.


— Gen. Cornwallis, commanding British forces in the South, informing the commander of all British forces in North America, Gen. Clinton, that he surrendered his army at Yorktown, Virginia (October 19, 1781).

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