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Examples
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And it is a battle against the money, and the machine, and the insentient ideal monkeyishness of the world.
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At the moment of my departure, I find within myself only a smile of careless mockery for the swarming crowd of this Lilliputian curtseying people -- laborious, industrious, greedy of gain, tainted with a constitutional affectation, hereditary insignificance, and incurable monkeyishness.
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Man's inborn monkeyishness is obtaining the upper hand and bearing him back to his natural filth, -- and the glimmerings of the Ideal as shown forth in a few examples of heroic and noble living are like the flash of the rainbow-arch spanning a storm-cloud, -- beautiful, but alas!
God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889
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Man's inborn monkeyishness is obtaining the upper hand and bearing him back to his natural filth, -- and the glimmerings of the Ideal as shown forth in a few examples of heroic and noble living are like the flash of the rainbow-arch spanning a storm-cloud, -- beautiful, but alas!
God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889
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Man's inborn monkeyishness is obtaining the upper hand and bearing him back to his natural filth, -- and the glimmerings of the Ideal as shown forth in a few examples of heroic and noble living are like the flash of the rainbow-arch spanning a storm-cloud, -- beautiful, but alas!
God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889
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At the moment of my departure, I can only find within myself a smile of careless mockery for the swarming crowd of this Liliputian curtseying people, -- laborious, industrious, greedy of gain, tainted with a constitutional affectation, hereditary insignificance, and incurable monkeyishness.
Madame Chrysantheme Pierre Loti 1886
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At the moment of my departure, I find within myself only a smile of careless mockery for the swarming crowd of this Lilliputian curtseying people -- laborious, industrious, greedy of gain, tainted with a constitutional affectation, hereditary insignificance, and incurable monkeyishness.
Madame Chrysantheme — Complete Pierre Loti 1886
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The Germans have a saying that the higher a monkey climbs the more he exposes his monkeyishness; and unfortunately this architect has been allowed to climb very high.
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