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«To secede from the Union and set up another government would cause war. If you go to war with the United States, you will never conquer her, as she has the money and the men. If she does not whip you by guns, powder, and steel, she will starve you to»
Author: Sam Houston
(General, Lawyer, Politician)
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War
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«Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.»
«When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.»
Author: Truman Capote
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
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Gifts
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flagellation, intended, self-flagellation, solely, whip
«The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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«There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.»
«Whip him, fellows,Till, like a boy, you see him cringe his face,And whine aloud for mercy: take him hence.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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aloud, cringe, fellows, whine, whip