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barbs, all the meanness and all the venom that Nick
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He was tired of Toad, and his sulks and his airs and his meanness
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Knowing his meanness, I knew he would come
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the profession, too, makes some compensation even to them for the meanness of their
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}and it is from ignorance chiefly, and the meanness of mercantile prejudice, that they ever oppress it
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In those of the former kind, liberality, frankness, and good fellowship, naturally make a part of their common character ; in the latter, narrowness, meanness, and a selfish disposition, averse to all social pleasure and enjoyment
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If the meanness and poverty of the trustees of turnpike roads render it sometimes difficult, at present, to oblige them to repair their wrong ; their wealth and greatness would render it ten times more so in the case which is here supposed
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If any service is very much underpaid, it is very apt to suffer by the meanness and incapacity of the greater part of those who are employed in it
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prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft
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Still, he had a good, strong face without coldness or meanness
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Its meanness quality is low, is a high risk of violence
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meanness and madness in the acts of man
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but the meanness and madness at their root
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Is not meanness
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But Batam which was impervious to the taunts and felt no hatred for anyone, ever, had no calluses on his heart, rising meanness in his spirit, always as good Samaritan in adverse cases, never got angry or rebuked my sister Beatrice in no time; so in the long run she gave up the use of the peculiar nickname
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Think about the poor people in the tubes, the wounded Lucas, Noël and his obsessive meanness, the inhuman Doc John
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She not only told the family but the whole town, because Amaranta had conceived of the idea that she could make up for a life of meanness with one last favor to the world, and she thought that no one was in a better position to take letters to the dead
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Fascinated by the discov-ery of friendship, bewildered by the enchantments of a world which had been forbidden to him by Fernanda’s meanness, Aureliano abandoned the scrutiny of the parchments precisely when they were beginning to reveal themselves as predictions in coded lines of poetry
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Yosef, growing fed up with so much meanness, had finally brought Miriam to Bethlehem a month ago to make her escape the gossips in Nazareth
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Nancy actually classifies his personality as lawful evil, meaning that he may act with violence or meanness but would do it to preserve a set of rules or laws from a given authority, not for his own profit
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Sarai, on her part, eventually understood the meanness of her actions and died with that weight on her conscience
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For Watts, that was more than simple meanness on the part of Grand Administrator Li: it was also an act of criminal stupidity
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We need to get out of meanness and smallness, and start to learn how to give
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Why are you doing it? This is a poor person, why should they be doing this, and this, and this? Well, because it's actually an issue of the heart, and of generosity, and you're just flushing up your own meanness
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It's just that meanness, and selfishness, hates generosity
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Niggardliness in this respect is meanness,
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The statement “behind his back” is an expression of the meanness of work
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The Almighty said “Proclaim to them” in order to tell us that the meanness of the unbeliever and his sorrow because of his omission in his lifetime in addition to the evil he has stored in his spirit will bring upon him anguish a great bitter regret and will cause him distress and unbearable spiritual suffering
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But, in fact, whatever age the transgressing evil doer lives in, unless he voluntarily refrains from his error and evil desire, he will never submit to what is right, moreover, he will deny it because it is conflicting with his conduct and disagreeing with the vice which his spirit yearns to and the meanness it is colored with
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but those who desire the lowly life depriving themselves of the graces and blessings of true belief in God and of rendering good actions those are the people of wretchedness and meanness, therefore the Almighty God says:
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That is, this is achieved by virtue of the spirit’s cleanness of its defects, meanness and dirty desires
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Haven had to suffer the snickers, giggles and sheer meanness of her classmates while
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Moreover, a group of them turned their back to the Book of God and charged the envoys by God and the prophets with stories filled with depravity and meanness 'far be it from them'
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What will the street provide them with? It will certainly present them with meanness and vices, and this is the utmost wish of the devil: to find a wretched evildoing errant idle generation so that they will grow up abounding with obscenity, vice, and misery, just as children today are adults tomorrow
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I am writing now as near the stove as possible in Papa's room, glad to be with him, glad to be warm, grateful to sit with somebody alive after that hour with the ghosts; and the result of deep considering has been to force me to face the fact that there is much meanness in my nature
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It is amazing that it should be so, for have I not everything a reasonable being needs, and am I not, then, a reasonable being? And the meanness of it; for it does imply a grudging, an uneasiness in the presence of somebody else's happiness
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I know no surer way of shaking off the dreary crust formed about the soul by the trying to do one's duty or the patient enduring of having somebody else's duty done to one, than going out alone, either at the bright beginning of the day, when the earth is still unsoiled by the feet of the strenuous and only God is abroad; or in the evening, when the hush has come, out to the blessed stars, and looking up at them wonder at the meanness of the day just past, at the worthlessness of the things one has struggled for, at the folly of having been so angry, and so restless, and so much afraid
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divine meanness, nor godly insensitivity, but rather reveal a necessity, for example that the
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I was abroad continuing my studies and missed the meanness and nastiness of the proceedings
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We are now promoted from the lower to the higher, from the imperfection to the perfection, from the pollution to the purity, from the individual to the cosmic, from the mortality to the eternity and from the meanness of the physical to the grace of the transcendence
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and their own people is a litany of puking disgusting meanness and nastiness that will make you want to vomit
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They share addictions with each other, they share laziness with each other, they share snobbery with each other, they share exclusionary practices with each other, they share hate with each other, they share fear and terror with each other, they share envy with each other, they share selfishness with each other, they share meanness with each other, they share greed with each other, they share mistrust of each other, they share avarice with each other, they share the lowest lusts of the body with each other, they share pornography with each other, they share filth with each other, they share moral ethical rotten behavior with each other, they share fear with each other, they share dead boxes with each other, they share eating dead animals stuffing their bellies until the intestines inside their bellies become huge fat extended bubbles of rotting stinking accumulations of fecal matter that gives them terminal cancer: terminal colon cancer, intestinal cancer: all kinds of cancers that come from indulging themselves and sharing their indulgences as spoiled consumers
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Because of the stingy meanness of the Roman refusal to give their exclusive citizenship to anyone else, the Italian Peninsula was torn by civil wars, and invasions, and political turmoil for centuries
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It is one of the longest, most boring historical accounts of cultural, individual, mass, religious: stupidity, viciousness, and meanness ever chronicled
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, so great was Agamemnon’s pride and arrogance and jealousy and hate, and meanness, that he had banished his own son from his Kingdom
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Covering up all the hate and killing and meanness that Americans suck on with their mother’s milk
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a pounding headache would add to his meanness this
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It has put a streak of meanness in
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meanness in this man
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meanness: he had found that this technique always rattled
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Then there is the stone face the tennis players face each other with: stone faces that show no human emotion whatsoever, not showing anything human: just hate and death and meanness and aggression… Then there are the screamers like Sharipova: who scream out hate every time they hit the ball, and the grunters like Ferrer and yellers like Djokovic who yell out their hate every time they hit the ball
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The Other Side, a place that amplifies Self’s personal consciousness, for the capacity to acknowledge the true spirit of relational love and compassion over and above a personal spirit of selfishness, meanness and ill will
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She nurtures that, her secret strength, but displays a lone wolf meanness to those who'd ask
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„What the fuck are ya doing, ya cunt?' he barked with a meanness of spirit that
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You know Teresa, my grandfather could be very mean and stubborn sometimes! He could be just as mean and stubborn as Dana! I think that's where she inherited her meanness and stubbornness! She inherited it from my grandfather!" Teresa starts to cry on the phone
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It was not the meanness of his sentimental effusions before Ilya Petrovitch, nor the meanness of the latter's triumph over him that had caused this sudden revulsion in his heart
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"Why had he gone to her to beg for her tears? What need had he to poison her life? Oh, the meanness of it!"
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He preferred to attribute it to the dead weight of instinct which he could not step over, again through weakness and meanness
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The cheating look, the frivolous word, the adulterous wish, not wanting, Refusals, hates, postponements, meanness, laziness, none of these wanting, Was one with the rest, the days and haps of the rest,
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All these--all the meanness and agony without end I sitting look out upon, See, hear, and am silent
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The duchess and the duke came out to the door of the room to receive him, and with them a grave ecclesiastic, one of those who rule noblemen's houses; one of those who, not being born magnates themselves, never know how to teach those who are how to behave as such; one of those who would have the greatness of great folk measured by their own narrowness of mind; one of those who, when they try to introduce economy into the household they rule, lead it into meanness
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Venables' meanness of soul, this step did not excite my surprise, and scarcely my contempt
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I was, of course, myself the chief sufferer, because I was fully conscious of the disgusting meanness of my spiteful stupidity, and yet at the same time I could not restrain myself
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There came over him a look of meanness and of paltriness
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To attach myself to your sister, therefore, was not a thing to be thought of;--and with a meanness, selfishness, cruelty-- which no indignant, no contemptuous look, even of yours, Miss Dashwood, can ever reprobate too much--I was acting in this manner, trying to engage her regard, without a thought of returning it
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That Lucy had certainly meant to deceive, to go off with a flourish of malice against him in her message by Thomas, was perfectly clear to Elinor; and Edward himself, now thoroughly enlightened on her character, had no scruple in believing her capable of the utmost meanness of wanton ill-nature
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She had known--oh, well she had known! All the time he was away from her she had summed him up, seen his littleness, his meanness, and his folly
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or his insubordination to the river-god, on whose divinity he is ready to lay hands; or his offering to the dead Patroclus of his own hair, which had been previously dedicated to the other river-god Spercheius, and that he actually performed this vow; or that he dragged Hector round the tomb of Patroclus, and slaughtered the captives at the pyre; of all this I cannot believe that he was guilty, any more than I can allow our citizens to believe that he, the wise Cheiron's pupil, the son of a goddess and of Peleus who was the gentlest of men and third in descent from Zeus, was so disordered in his wits as to be at one time the slave of two seemingly inconsistent passions, meanness, not untainted by avarice, combined with overweening contempt of gods and men
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Then, I said, we must take Damon into our counsels; and he will tell us what rhythms are expressive of meanness, or insolence, or fury, or other unworthiness, and what are to be reserved for the expression of opposite feelings
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But shall our superintendence go no further, and are the poets only to be required by us to express the image of the good in their works, on pain, if they do anything else, of expulsion from our State? Or is the same control to be extended to other artists, and are they also to be prohibited from exhibiting the opposite forms of vice and intemperance and meanness and indecency in sculpture and building and the other creative arts; and is he who cannot conform to this rule of ours to be prevented from practising his art in our State, lest the taste of our citizens be corrupted by him? We would not have our guardians grow up amid images of moral deformity, as in some noxious pasture, and there browse and feed upon many a baneful herb and flower day by day, little by little, until they silently gather a festering mass of corruption in their own soul
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Wealth, I said, and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent
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There should be no secret corner of illiberality; nothing can be more antagonistic than meanness to a soul which is ever longing after the whole of things both divine and human
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There is a battle and they gain the day, and then modesty, which they call silliness, is ignominiously thrust into exile by them, and temperance, which they nickname unmanliness, is trampled in the mire and cast forth; they persuade men that moderation and orderly expenditure are vulgarity and meanness, and so, by the help of a rabble of evil appetites, they drive them beyond the border
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And then he got into the company of a more refined, licentious sort of people, and taking to all their wanton ways rushed into the opposite extreme from an abhorrence of his father's meanness
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Then if the man is like the State, I said, must not the same rule prevail? his soul is full of meanness and vulgarity--the best elements in him are enslaved; and there is a small ruling part, which is also the worst and maddest
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And is not a man reproached for flattery and meanness who subordinates the spirited animal to the unruly monster, and, for the sake of money, of which he can never have enough, habituates him in the days of his youth to be trampled in the mire, and from being a lion to become a monkey?
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As a matter of course, they fawned upon me in my prosperity with the basest meanness
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I had heard of her as leading a most unhappy life, and as being separated from her husband, who had used her with great cruelty, and who had become quite renowned as a compound of pride, avarice, brutality, and meanness
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Scarlett had a suspicion that Rhett had gone to great pains to have the ring made up and, for pure meanness, had ordered it made as ostentatious as possible
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Oh, that was too hard a penance, she her penance, there would be the dreadful sight of Melanie’s face changing from fond thought in anguish, to have to live out her life remembering Melanie’s face, knowing that Melanie knew all the pettiness, the meanness, the two-faced disloyalty and the
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Petrovitch, nor the meanness of the latter's triumph over him that had caused this sudden revulsion in his heart
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Lydgate was no Puritan, but he did not care for play, and winning money at it had always seemed a meanness to him; besides, he had an ideal of life which made this subservience of conduct to the gaining of small sums thoroughly hateful to him
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Having the scruples of rectitude in our souls, we are above the meanness of injuring him—rather we meet all his claims on us by active benefits; and the drawing of cheques for him, being a superiority which he must recognize, gives our bitterness a milder infusion
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They would find out that the blood in his veins was as free from the taint of meanness as theirs
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"It would be very unkind of you to suppose that I ever attributed any meanness to you," she began
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I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ
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And here again came the meanness: I immediately thought about that other little tabloid girl, Jamie Something, who’d lost her family the same year—1985
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I chewed my cheeks raw as I rewired our irrigation system, imagining which spells I could cast to prevent the meanness of children
