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“To leave frivolous circumstances, I pray you tell Signior
Lucentio that his father is come from Pisa and is here at the
door to speak with him.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio at V, i)
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“How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and
accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be
begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.”
J. Smith ("John Smith of Cambridge") Quotes Source: Select Discourses (III, p. 48)
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“The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good
to others.
[Lat., Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent.]”
Syrus (Publilius Syrus) Quotes Source: Maxims
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“The changeful change of circumstances.
[Lat., Varia sors rerum.]”
Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus) Quotes Source: Historioe (bk. II, 70)
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“So runs the round of life from hour to hour.”
Lord Alfred Tennyson Quotes Source: Circumstance
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“And grasps the skirts of happy chance,
And breasts the blows of circumstance.”
Lord Alfred Tennyson Quotes Source: In Memoriam (pt. LXIII, st. 2)
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“This fearful concatenation of circumstances.”
Daniel Webster Quotes Source: Argument--The Murder of Captain Joseph White (vol. VI, p. 88)
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“F.M. The Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr.
------ and declines to interfere in circumstances over which he
has no control.”
Daniel Webster Quotes Source: Argument--The Murder of Captain Joseph White (vol. VI, p. 88)
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“Who does the best that circumstance allows,
Does well, acts nobly, angels could no more.”
Edward Young Quotes Source: Night Thoughts (night II, l. 90)
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