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to the lowest degree
«Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.»
Author: Adam Smith
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administration, Administration of Justice, barbarism, brought about, lowest, natural state, opulence, requisite, tolerable, to the highest degree, to the lowest degree
«Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.»
«Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: / But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.»
«LAZINESS, n. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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laziness, to the lowest degree, unwarranted
«MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy and officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility. His principal qualification is a degree of plausible inveracity next below that of an ambassador.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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agent, ambassador, below, diplomacy, embodiment, foreign, foreign minister, high-powered, higher degree, higher power, hostilities, hostility, lower, minister, officer, plausible, principal, qualification, sent, sovereign, The Ambassadors, The Embodiment, to a higher degree, to the highest degree, to the lowest degree, visible
«Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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to the lowest degree
«And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree»
«Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his hand; so there is no exercise of invention. Imagination is not required in any degree; only about as much as is used in the lowest kinds of poetry. Some penetration, accuracy, and coloring, will fit a man for the task, if he can give the application which is necessary.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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accuracy, coloring, historian, penetration, quiescent, requisite, to the lowest degree
«In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself / only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
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beggary, deprived, foremost, to the lowest degree, without consideration