"Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?"

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“To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.”

“Though it rain daggers with their points downward.”

“Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity.”

“Our conscience, which is a great ledger book, wherein are written all our offenses...grinds our souls with the remembrance of some precedent sins, makes us reflect upon, accuse and condemn ourselves.”

“The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.”

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— James Berardinelli

Literature1967

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— Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu

Politics1933–2011

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— William Ellery Channing

Religion1786–1853

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