Do you suppose, you that sell, that this pint of yours has been sweet to me?

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Beautiful Sentences, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Literature

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

For not always will the poor one be forgotten, nor the hope of the meek ones ever perish

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Beautiful Sentences

Psalms 9:18

I’m a romantic, I’m an exotic, I want strangeness, difference.

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Beautiful Sentences, Galaxies, Robert Silverberg, Science fiction

 - Robert Silverberg, Schwartz Between the Galaxies

To their enemies the Comanches were implacable buffalo-horned killers, grim apostles of darkness and devestation

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Beautiful Sentences

- Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne

It’s all still just a charade, a spring display of military capacities by two rival armed forces that could as well be rutting deer.

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Beautiful Sentences, Despicable Phrases

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http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=350968

(I don’t know anything about this blog/newspaper/whatever. I am not endorsing it or its viewpoints. I simply thought this was an interesting sentence. Some fun cadence and a graphic metaphor. I’ll place it in both the Beautiful Sentences and Despicable Phrases categories. The latter for the content. Really, the games that need not be played …)

Duhyle understood the logic, but not the emotional acceptance of a belief that would doom hundreds of millions of people, if not life throughout the universe, to a far, far earlier death than necessary simply so that one group could control how life was conducted on one insignificant planet..

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L E Modesitt

 - Empress of Eternity by L.E. Modesitt