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  • Parole de Dieu, [539] et qui la reprennent de ses vices, de ses avarices de ses idolatries.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • In these days, what of _lordship_ or leadership is still to be done, the youth must do it, not the mature or aged man; the mature man, hardened into sceptical egoism, knows no monition but that of his own frigid cautious, avarices, mean timidities; and can lead no-whither towards an object that even seems noble.

    Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838

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