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  • Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle, he inquired in the naivest way who he might be and what he had done.

    May I Be Excused? My Brain Is Full. 2007

  • Over the last six months, an Obama-Clinton ticket has gone from the naivest of fantasies on the part of the candidates 'most clueless supporters to a seriously sensible and pragmatic option.

    Mayhill Fowler: The Hangover 2008

  • Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle, he inquired in the naivest way who he might be and what he had done.

    What's Wrong with Sherlock Holmes' Theory of Knowledge Steve Sailer 2005

  • Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle, he inquired in the naivest way who he might be and what he had done.

    Archive 2005-05-01 Steve Sailer 2005

  • The histories I was given when I was a little boy generally started off by explaining in the naivest way that a cold climate made people energetic while

    The Road to Wigan Pier 2004

  • At that time revolutionary ballads of the naivest kind, all about proletarian brotherhood and the wickedness of Mussolini, were being sold on the streets for a few centimes each.

    Homage to Catalonia 1938

  • The histories I was given when I was a little boy generally started off by explaining in the naivest way that a cold climate made people energetic while a hot one made them lazy, and hence the defeat of the Spanish Armada.

    The Road to Wigan Pier 1937

  • The histories I was given when I was a little boy generally started off by explaining in the naivest way that a cold climate made people energetic while a hot one made them lazy, and hence the defeat of the Spanish Armada.

    North and South 1937

  • But even if we disregard all this and examine only the given product along with its activity, this seems to me enough to make the objective lunacy of this institution dawn on even the naivest mind.

    Mein Kampf Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 1925

  • Money is conveniently lost and found; the naivest coincidences continually occur; people turn up in the nick of time at the exact spot required, and develop the most needful (but entirely casual) relations with the characters.

    Criticisms and Interpretations. III. By Austin Dobson 1917

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