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«The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.»
Author: Denis Diderot
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arbitrary, enlightened, imperceptibly, lull, lulled, lulling, lulls, respecting, serving, successor, surest
«One of these flaws was, that having been long taught by his father to over-reach everybody he had imperceptibly acquired a love of over-reaching that venerable monitor himself. The other, that from his early habits of considering everything as a question of property, he had gradually come to look, with impatience, on his parent as a certain amount of personal estate, which had no right whatever to be going at large, but ought to be secured in that particular description of iron safe which is commonly called a coffin, and banked in the grave.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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at large, banked, commonly called, description, imperceptibly, monitor, monitoring, monitors, personal estate, personal property, secured, venerable, with impatience
«Do not hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Trouble
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breaking away, break away, break in, feed, feed upon, fix, imperceptibly, intervals, troubles, wholly, with attention
«We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves: how often we alter our minds, we do not always remark; because the change is sometimes made imperceptibly and»
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Relationships
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alter, differ, imperceptibly, offended, remark
«O Nanak, they merge imperceptibly into the Lord, who has bestowed His Favor upon them.»
«O Nanak, those who are united with Him shall not be separated again. They merge imperceptibly into God.»
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