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Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.
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I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
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In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace.
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It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.
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It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.
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Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.
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Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.
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Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
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The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
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The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.
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Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there.
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We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
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