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this scythe that mows down kings Exempts no meaner mortal things.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Francis Beaumont |

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | George Eliot |

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Jane Jacobs |

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | John M Barrie |

Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of Kings....

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Alexander Pope |

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | George Eliot |

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | William Shakespeare |