Famous quotes containing the word generally:
“I know as well as any one, [the devil] is an adversary, whom if we resist, he will fly from usbut I seldom resist him at all; from a terror, that though I may conquer, I may still get a hurt in the combatso ... instead of thinking to make him fly, I generally fly myself.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“His breast was the seat of all those passions which degrade our nature, and disturb our reason. There they raged in a perpetual conflict; but avarice, the meanest of them all, generally triumphed, ruled absolutely, and in many instances, which I forbear to mention, most scandalously.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
“The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.”
—Marcel Proust (18711922)
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