A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

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A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.
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It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
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Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity.
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I stood among them, but not of them; in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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More quotes about Empire

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.
Dean Acheson · Empire
The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.
Joseph Chamberlain · Empire
Empire and liberty.
Marcus T. Cicero · Empire
An empire is an immense egotism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Empire
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