"O dearer far than light and life are dear."
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"Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?"
"My dear girl. I am his family. I am permanent. You are only temporary."
"Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted."
"We will peck them to death to-morrow, my dear."
"Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi."
"Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear."
"Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living."
"Writers are liars my dear, surely you know that by now?"
"I shall never love anybody. I can't love people. I hate them.' 'The time will come, dear, the time will come."
"Dear Hitler Take away the torches I'm not guilty I had to have this"
"All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear."
"We must for dear life make our own counter-realities."
"Dear is my friend--yet from my foe, as from my friend, comes good: My friend shows what I can do, and my foe what I should."
"To the good warrior soundeth "thou shalt" pleasanter than "I will." And all that is dear unto you, ye shall first have it commanded unto you."
"Dear girl! Life is addictive. Yet we must live."
"Until I discover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep. "My dear uncle-" I began. "Nor you either," he added."
"Dear Jane, Just so you know: e. e. cummings cheated on both of his wives. With prostitutes. Yours, Will Grayson"
"All you have to do is buy cheap and sell dear, act with thrift and shrewdness, and be persistent."
"Experience is a dear teacher but he delivers th' goods."