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  • Joseph Addison Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Abigail Adams I regret the narrow contracted education of the females of my own country.
    Source: Letter to John Adams (30 June 1778)
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Baba Kalyani The Indian business has largely grown on the back of exports. The domestic markets, as far as our Indian business is concerned, actually have contracted because of the contraction in the medium and heavy commercial vehicle space.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Thomas E. Lawrence This death's livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their wills and bodies to the State: and contracted themselves into a service not the less abject for that its beginning was voluntary.
    Thomas E. Lawrence
    British archaeologist, military officer, diplomat, and writer (1888 - 1935)
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