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Famous quotes containing the words mild and/or severe:

    Faith is not sure, if you cannot turn love to quarrel; may my enemies obtain a mild mistress.
    Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.)

    Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.
    Joseph Addison (1672–1719)