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"I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity."
"As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated."
"If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation."
"Rulers are no more than attorneys, agents, and trustees, for the people; and if the cause, the interest and trust, is insidiously betrayed, or wantonly trifled away, the people have a right to revoke the authority that they themselves have deputed, and to constitute abler and better agents, attorneys, and trustees."
"Because i've suffered. Because many times in my life i have tried to love with all my heart, and my love has wound up being trampled or betrayed."
"The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change."
"She raised her head finally. He looked the same, but then, he always did. She'd seem him kill twice, and he betrayed no reaction at all. He was a monster, not even human. But he was her monster."
"youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed."
"By such literalism, fundamentalism, religions betrayed the best intentions of their founders. Reducing thought to formula, replacing choice by obedience, these preachers turned the living word into dead law."
"Jared Kushner has sort of betrayed the Democratic roots that his family grew up in."
"Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns."
"I do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L North's work)"
"He knew I'd seen everything in that alley, that I'd stood there and done nothing. He knew that I'd betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time."
