“ Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored. ”
- Alfred Whitney Griswold- Copy
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“ Rape is a culturally fostered means of suppressing women. Legally we say we deplore it, but mythically we romanticize and perpetuate it, and privately we excuse and overlook it. ”
- Victoria Billings- Copy
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“ She was a buxom grandmother noted for her detective stories, who gazed mournfully at the camera as if deploring either the bloodiness of her craft or the size of her advance. ”
- P. D. James- Copy
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“ Praising the Sandinistas while criticizing the Soviets is like loving kittens and deploring cats. Actually it's not such a nice kitty. ”
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“ Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
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“ To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble. ”
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