“ I feel how little she can like being told of her owing me anything. No woman ever enjoys such an obligation to another woman. ”
- Henry James- Copy
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“ If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent. ”
- Isaac Newton- Copy
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“ The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
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“ Most of the arguments to which I am a party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about. ”
- Robert Benchley- Copy
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“ He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
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“ Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives. ”
- Captain J. G. Stedman- Copy
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“ The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man. ”
- Bernard Mandeville- Copy
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