Quotes with procure

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• I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot.

  Anthony Wayne
  American politican and statesman (1745 - 1796)
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• If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ''our'' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share.

  Virginia Woolf
  English writer (1882 - 1941)
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• It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.

  Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• The best way to procure insults is to submit to them.

  William Hazlitt
  English writer (1778 - 1830)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• understood
• rationally
• privilege
• compelled
• benefits
• probably

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