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• If it were inevitable that one of these two should always enfeeble or exclude the other, if the price of the mental alacrity and open-mindedness of the age of Pericles must always be paid in the political incompetence of the age of Demosthenes, it would be hard to settle which quality ought to be most eagerly encouraged by those who have most to do with the spiritual direction of a community. —  On Compromise
• Therefore it is humanity itself which obeys an irresistible instinct when it renders homage to one who refines it by tears that never enfeeble, and by a laughter that never degrades You know that we are about to intrust our honored countryman to the hospitality of those kindred shores in which his writings are as much "household words" as they are in the homes of England. —  Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O
• The root law' means to enfeeble, render sick, especially applied to love-sickness (Lau'ah). —  Arabian nights. English
• The root law 'means to enfeeble, render sick, especially applied to love-sickness (Lau'ah). —  Arabian nights. English
• They have been as a rule singularly free from the kinds of vice that do most to enfeeble and corrode a race. —  Historical and Political Essays

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