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Destruction

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

- Richard Steele

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Design

It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.

- Richard Steele

Husband

A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.

- Richard Steele

Pleasure

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.

- Richard Steele

Sex Sense Man

A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her.

- Richard Steele

Beauty Nothing

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

- Richard Steele

Heart Man

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

- Richard Steele

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Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

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Destruction Will

Terrorists have already attacked our Nation once. There is every reason to believe that they will try again - possibly with a weapon of mass destruction; a weapon that could be smuggled into our ports.

- Mike Fitzpatrick

Destruction Now Nothing

We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.

- Lester B. Pearson

Destruction World

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

- David Hume

Destruction Years

We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction.

- Bob Graham

Destruction Man

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

- Mohandas Gandhi