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Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character. - Sir Richard Steele Weakness indicates dependence, and there is a degree of trust and tenderness also in it. - Eugene Sue (Marie Joseph Eugene Sue) Weakness is born vanquished. - Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine (Soimonoff) Weakness to be wroth with weakness! woman's pleasure, woman's pain-- Nature made them blinder motions bounded in a shallower brain. - Lord Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall (st. 75) The weakest goes to the wall. - David Tuvill, Essays Morall Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire) Women deluded by these sentiments, sometimes boast of their weakness, cunningly obtaining power by playing on the weakness of men; and they may well glory in their illicit sway, for, like Turkish bashaws, they have more real power than their masters: but virtue is sacrificed to temporary gratifications, and the respectability of life to the triumph of an hour. - Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women (ch. 3) The weak may be joked out of anything but their weakness. - Johann Georg von Zimmermann Displaying page 3 of 3 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 [3]
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