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A pampered menial drove me from the door. 1

thomas moss

— The Beggar, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). This line originally began, "A liveried servant", and was altered as above by Goldsmith. Forster, Life of Goldsmith, vol. i. p. 215 (5th edition, 1871).

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Holla, ye pampered Jades of Asia; What, can ye draw but twenty miles a day?

Christopher Marlowe

— 1587  Tamburlaine the Great (published1590), pt.2, l.3980-1.

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"Above all there is our fixed joint determination to build a strong and united Fiji, rich in diversity and pampered with tolerance, goodwill and understanding." (Attributed to Mara by his successor as President, Ratu Josefa Iloilo, 10 October 2005).

ratu sir kamisese mara

— Independence Day address, 10 October 1970

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The commonest and cheapest sounds, as the barking of a dog, produce the same effect on fresh and healthy ears that the rarest music does. It depends on your appetite for sound. Just as a crust is sweeter to a healthy appetite than confectionery to a pampered or diseased one.

Henry David Thoreau

— December 27, 1857

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There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not by the offended, but by the offender himself. The first blow dealt to the French monarchy proceeded from the nobility, not from the peasants. The Indian revolt does not commence with the ryots, tortured, dishonoured and stripped naked by the British, but with the sepoys, clad, fed and petted, fatted and pampered by them.

karl marx

— In an article written for the New York Daily Tribune, September 16, 1857 [1]

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We are, by astronomical standards, a pampered, cosseted, cherished group of creatures. ... If the Universe had not been made with the most exacting precision we could never have come into existence. It is my view that these circumstances indicate the universe was created for man to live in.


— John O'Keefe, quoted in Fred Heeren, Show Me God, Wheeling, Illinois, Searchlight Publications, 1995, p. 200

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A pampered menial drove me from the door.

thomas moss

— Thomas Moss, The Beggar. (Altered by Goldsmith from "A Liveried Servant," etc.).

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