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Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffer...

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Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky wa...

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your ange...

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I'm hurting you to make you a better soldier in every way. To sharpen your wit. To intensify your ef...

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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are,...

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It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.

Did life treat everyone so wantonly, ripping the good things to pieces while letting bad things fest...

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Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

Now that lilacs are in bloomShe has a bowl of lilacs in her roomAnd twists one in her fingers while ...

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T. S. EliotPrufrock and Other Observations

If you're all so peaceful up there, how did you get such greedy and cruel ideas?"The dragon was sile...

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At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me....

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If we could believe that he [Jesus] really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlat...

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It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God...

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Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's m...

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Holy shadows of the dead, I am not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry...

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It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

It’s weird like, you can see the cruelest part of the world. The cruelest part. But then on the othe...

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Fate has a cruel sense of humor, don't you think?

She was only really a female to him.But perhaps that was better. And after all, he was kind to the f...

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D. H. LawrenceLady Chatterley's Lover:

between the disfigurement and the muzzle, it's nearly impossible to catch what she's saying. Always,...

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David SedarisSquirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary