Quotes with confessed

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• A Chicago alderman once confessed he needed physical exercise but didn't like jogging, because in that sport you couldn't hit anyone.

  Andrew H. Malcolm
   
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• He's half absolved who has confessed.

  Matthew Prior
  British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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• The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

  William Bolitho
  South African journalist, writer and biographer
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• The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

  Joseph Conrad
  In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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• This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

  Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• irresponsible
• consciousness
• practically
• inferiority
• professions
• generosity

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