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'Tis sheer ill-nature — don't the world know best?
Letter 413 2009
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You raise up before me a mystery that prevents our marriage, and I believe you; but they could not believe you without doubts arising as to the wrong and ill-nature of the mystery.
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'Tis sheer ill-nature — don't the world know best?
Letter 423 2009
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Without the ties of parental or maternal affection, were you to be deprived of Lady Seyntaubyne, you would find the world abounding in selfishness, envy and ill-nature.
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Death will soon put him in possession of a fair estate, if he hath it not already; old Lady Girnington — an excellent person, excepting that her inveterate ill-nature rendered her intolerable to the whole world — is probably dead by this time.
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Probably contributing to her ill-nature is the genes from her father; himself quite a grumpy intellect Quaid.
Row Three » Review: Smart People - Where Cinema is more than just $100 Million productions 2008
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To represent me as viewing it with ill-nature, animosity, or partisanship, is merely to do a very foolish thing, which is always a very easy one; and which I have disregarded for eight years, and could disregard for eighty more.
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I never knew any in which there was so little of ill-nature.
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You never, never, had malice or ill-nature in what I caWedj/uur petulance.
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I have a vast deal of roguery, but no ill-nature, in my heart.
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