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Familiar Quotations

Privileges

God puts some in places of leadership to shoulder responsibility, not to enjoy privileges.–Anonymous

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.–Joseph Campbell

Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.–Anna Chennault

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.–Shirley Chisholm

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.–Noam Chomsky

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.–Calvin Coolidge

It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness.–Ralph Waldo Emerson

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.–William Faulkner

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.–Gunther Grass

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.–Charles Hughes

• Preface x
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Privileges 1
• Privileges – "Freedom" 2
• Privileges – "Liberty" 3
• Privileges – "Men" 4
• Privileges – "People" 4
• Use in Literature 6
• Privileges 6
• Privileges – "Abolished" 20
• Privileges – "Abuse" 21
• Privileges – "Advantages" 21
• Privileges – "Alone" 22
• Privileges – "Americans" 23
• Privileges – "Ancient" 24
• Privileges – "Anger" 24
• Privileges – "Aristocracy" 25
• Privileges – "Ask" 25
• Privileges – "Attends" 26
• Privileges – "Authority" 26
• Privileges – "Beautiful" 27
• Privileges – "Begged" 28
• Privileges – "Being" 29
• Privileges – "Belief" 32
• Privileges – "Best" 33
• Privileges – "Burden" 33
• Privileges – "Business" 34
• Privileges – "Called" 34
• Privileges – "Carriage" 35
• Privileges – "Case" 36
• Privileges – "Change" 36
• Privileges – "Character" 37
• Privileges – "Charter" 38
• Privileges – "Children" 39
• Privileges – "Choosing" 40
• Privileges – "Christian" 41
• Privileges – "Church" 42
• Privileges – "Cities" 42
• Privileges – "Citizen" 43
• Privileges – "Class" 44
• Privileges – "Came" 46
• Privileges – "Common" 48
• Privileges – "Company" 48
• Privileges – "Conditions" 49
• Privileges – "Consequence" 50
• Privileges – "Constitution" 50
• Privileges – "Country" 52
• Privileges – "Cruel" 53
• Privileges – "Custom" 54
• Privileges – "Dangers" 54
• Privileges – "Days" 55
• Privileges – "Dearest" 58
• Privileges – "Demand" 58
• Privileges – "Desired" 59
• Privileges – "Don't" 59
• Privileges – "Doubtful" 60
• Privileges – "Duty" 60
• Privileges – "Early" 62
• Privileges – "Emperor" 63
• Privileges – "End" 63
• Privileges – "England" 64
• Privileges – "Enjoyed" 65
• Privileges – "European" 67
• Privileges – "Example" 68
• Privileges – "Exercised" 69
• Privileges – "Fall" 69
• Privileges – "Father" 70
• Privileges – "Fear" 71
• Privileges – "Feeling" 71
• Privileges – "Felt" 72
• Privileges – "Few" 74
• Privileges – "Form" 75
• Privileges – "Found" 77
• Privileges – "Free" 78
• Privileges – "French" 79
• Privileges – "Friend" 79
• Privileges – "Gentleman" 80
• Privileges – "Girl" 81
• Privileges – "Go" 82
• Privileges – "Gone" 83
• Privileges – "Great" 83
• Privileges – "Hands" 87
• Privileges – "Happy" 88
• Privileges – "Having" 89
• Privileges – "Herself" 90
• Privileges – "Home" 90
• Privileges – "Hopes" 91
• Privileges – "Hours" 91
• Privileges – "Houses" 92
• Privileges – "Human" 93
• Privileges – "Idea" 94
• Privileges – "Imagined" 94
• Privileges – "Individuals" 95
• Privileges – "Kept" 95
• Privileges – "King's" 96
• Privileges – "Knew" 98
• Privileges – "Labor" 102
• Privileges – "Ladies" 102
• Privileges – "Large" 103
• Privileges – "Laws" 104
• Privileges – "Learns" 105
• Privileges – "Left" 106
• Privileges – "Let" 107
• Privileges – "Liberal" 109
• Privileges – "Liberty" 109
• Privileges – "Life" 110
• Privileges – "Little" 111
• Privileges – "Live" 112
• Privileges – "Looks" 113
• Privileges – "Love" 114
• Privileges – "Made" 115
• Privileges – "Mean" 118
• Privileges – "Meeting" 119
• Privileges – "Members" 119
• Privileges – "Money" 120
• Privileges – "Morning" 121
• Privileges – "Mother's" 121
• Privileges – "Myself" 122
• Privileges – "Name" 122
• Privileges – "Nation" 123
• Privileges – "Nature" 124
• Privileges – "Nobility" 125
• Privileges – "Noble" 126
• Privileges – "Nothing" 127
• Privileges – "Occasion" 128
• Privileges – "Office" 129
• Privileges – "Old" 130
• Privileges – "Once" 132
• Privileges – "Opening" 134
• Privileges – "Order" 135
• Privileges – "Others" 137
• Privileges – "Parliament" 138
• Privileges – "Part" 138
• Privileges – "Pay" 141
• Privileges – "Peculiar" 143
• Privileges – "Personal" 143
• Privileges – "Place" 145
• Privileges – "Pleasure" 147
• Privileges – "Political" 147
• Privileges – "Poor" 148
• Privileges – "Position" 149
• Privileges – "Possessions" 150
• Privileges – "Possible" 150
• Privileges – "Power" 151
• Privileges – "Present" 153
• Privileges – "Principal" 154
• Privileges – "Property" 155
• Privileges – "Protect" 156
• Privileges – "Province" 156
• Privileges – "Public" 157
• Privileges – "Queen" 158
• Privileges – "Questions" 158
• Privileges – "Read" 159
• Privileges – "Reasoned" 160
• Privileges – "Relatives" 161
• Privileges – "Religious" 162
• Privileges – "Remember" 162
• Privileges – "Respect" 163
• Privileges – "Return" 164
• Privileges – "Rights" 165
• Privileges – "Rooms" 166
• Privileges – "Rule" 166
• Privileges – "Sought" 167
• Privileges – "Sense" 168
• Privileges – "Sent" 169
• Privileges – "Served" 169
• Privileges – "Sex" 170
• Privileges – "Shall" 170
• Privileges – "Shares" 171
• Privileges – "Showed" 172
• Privileges – "Sister" 173
• Privileges – "Sit" 173
• Privileges – "Society" 174
• Privileges – "Sooner" 175
• Privileges – "Soul" 175
• Privileges – "Spoke" 176
• Privileges – "Especial" 177
• Privileges – "Spirit" 178
• Privileges – "Standing" 179
• Privileges – "Stated" 180
• Privileges – "Subjected" 182
• Privileges – "Success" 182
• Privileges – "Talk" 183
• Privileges – "Ten" 184
• Privileges – "Things" 184
• Privileges – "Thought" 185
• Privileges – "Thus" 189
• Privileges – "Town" 190
• Privileges – "Tries" 191
• Privileges – "True" 191
• Privileges – "Understanding" 192
• Privileges – "Used" 193
• Privileges – "Value" 194
• Privileges – "Visits" 195
• Privileges – "Voting" 195
• Privileges – "Wanted" 195
• Privileges – "Wealthy" 196
• Privileges – "Wearing" 197
• Privileges – "Whatever" 197
• Privileges – "Wives" 198
• Privileges – "Willing" 198
• Privileges – "Wish" 199
• Privileges – "Woman" 200
• Privileges – "Wondered" 202
• Privileges – "Words" 203
• Privileges – "Work" 203
• Privileges – "World" 204
• Privileges – "Years" 205
• Privileges – "Younger" 206
• Privileges – "Youth" 207
• Nonfiction Usage 209
• Script Usage 209
• Historical Usage 209
• Presidential Usage 210
• Journalism Usage 211
• Legal Usage 227
• Governmental Usage 271
• Patent Usage 280
• Bibliographic Usage 282
• Encyclopedic Usage 363
• Lexicographic Usage 397
• Index 455