"To me no profitable speech sounds ill."
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"Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery."
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"Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it!"
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"Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill."
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"That proverbial saying, "Ill news goes quick and far."
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"It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun; to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete."
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"Ill-gotten wealth is never stable."
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"He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others"
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"Fear to do ill, and you need fear else."
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"He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her."
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"Oh, God! I have an ill-divining soul!"
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"The bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty, if ill employed."
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"For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill."
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"Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well."
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"I never deprive myself. If I'm craving something once a week, then Ill go have it Ice cream or whatever, I just eat the foods I like."
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"Satirists do expose their own ill nature."
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"The Ill-directed mind can do to you even worse"
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"Fine words dresse ill deedes."
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"As ill-luck would have it."
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"It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill."
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