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"And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind, The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind."
"And rest at last where souls unbodied dwell, In ever-flowing meads of Asphodel."
"At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him."
"Second freshness - that's what is nonsense! There is only one freshness - the first - and it is also the last. And if sturgeon is of the second freshness, that means it is simply rotten."
"I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer, anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest."
"However much one tries to suppress the will of the people they eventually will have the last word."
"The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner."
"The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last."
"Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit."
"So instead of getting to Heaven, at last - I’m going, all along."
"I believe indeed that to rescue the humanist tradition of the last decades is of the utmost importance, and that Victor Serge is one of the outstanding personalities representing the socialist aspect of humanism."
"Even if Hitler at the last moment would want to avoid war which would destroy him he will, in spite of his wishes, be compelled to wage war."
"The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot."
"I do not see them here; but after death God knows I know the faces I shall see, Each one a murdered self, with low last breath. 'I am thyself,what hast thou done to me?' 'And Iand Ithyself,' (lo! each one saith,) 'And thou thyself to all eternity!"
"I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last."
"Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong."
"I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torment break his spars to bits."
"Walking down Belmotte was the oddest sensation-- every step took us deeper into the mist until at last it closed over our heads. It was like being drowned in the ghost of water."
"Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes."