"Look how the world's poor people are amazed at apparitions, signs and prodigies!"
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"The sun with one eye vieweth all the world."
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"An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England."
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"As for my wife, I would you had her spirit in such another; The third o' th' world is yours, which with a snaffle You may pace easy, but not such a wife."
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"I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of th' infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine."
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"I swear again, I would not be a queen For all the world."
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"Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye."
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"A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest, A motley fool! a miserable world! As I do live by food, I met a fool Who laid him down and basked him in the sun And railed on Lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms, and yet a motley fool."
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"If she lives till doomsday, she'll burn a week longer than the whole world."
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"The time of universal peace is near. Prove this a prosp'rous day, the three-nooked world Shall bear the olive freely."
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"The world must be peopled!"
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"Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us, -- the place where in the endWe find our happiness, or not at all"
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"Dreams, books, are each a world."
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"Then blame not those who, by the mightiest lever Known to the moral world, Imagination."
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"The fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world Have hung upon the beatings of my heart."
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"I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules."
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"Life is a test and this world a place of trial."
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"From the days of Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx... this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society... has been steadily growing."
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"The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere."
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"It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian."
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