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«I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.»

«Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.»

«If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people like you would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear the professionals decode and read the books aloud for you. This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors and I-Married-a-Midget writers who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.»

«But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two kings stood not before him: how then shall we stand? / And he that was over the house, and he that was over the city, the elders also, and the bringers up of the children, sent to Jehu, saying, We are thy servants, and will do all that thou shalt bid us; we will not make any king: do thou that which is good in thine eyes.»

«Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.»

«For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God; / Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith? / Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.»

«For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it: / And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.»

«And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers, / And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, / And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans.»

«In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence, for he finds it impossible to imagine that he is the first to have thought out the exceedingly delicate threads that connect his perceptions»

«He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one;Exceedingly wise, fair-spoken and persuading;Lofty and sour to them that loved him not;But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.»