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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowRead
The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.
William ShakespeareRead
They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.
Samuel JohnsonRead
I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
Joseph ConradRead
[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is -- at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the 'point of view' of the reasonably enlightened human brain, and that this is the aspect of the matter which I am best fitted to uphold.
Dorothy L. SayersRead
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
Thomas CarlyleRead
When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever.
C. S. LewisRead

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