The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.


Fanny Kemble

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In the word of no master am I bound to believe.
HORACE
I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
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Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own t...
FANNY KEMBLE
Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglect...
FANNY KEMBLE
In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretche...
FANNY KEMBLE
I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill...
FANNY KEMBLE
The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous ...
FANNY KEMBLE
The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some deg...
FANNY KEMBLE
But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free lab...
FANNY KEMBLE
The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful t...
FANNY KEMBLE
A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these ...
FANNY KEMBLE
I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such...
FANNY KEMBLE
I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and...
FANNY KEMBLE
I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.
FANNY KEMBLE
Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
FANNY KEMBLE
The sea -- this truth must be confessed -- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities -- coura...
JOSEPH CONRAD
The sea--this truth must be confessed-- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities-- courage,...
JOSEPH CONRAD
The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage,...
JOSEPH CONRAD
I must confess that in my teens and twenties, I loved 'Mansfield Park' rather in spite of Fa...
SUSANNA CLARKE
The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.
AUDRE LORDE
No man is good enough to be another's master.
WILLIAM MORRIS
He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You ...
RALPH FIENNES
Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, an...
CONRAD BURNS
I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unf...
CATE BLANCHETT
A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's di...
SAMUEL BUTLER
And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were b...
BIBLE
It's great to be thought of as the master of anything. Even idiocy. Master of idiocy, Wes Craven...
WES CRAVEN
The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.
CHAKA FATTAH
There's no such thing as median income; there's a curve, and it really matters what side of ...
MARC ANDREESSEN
We don't mess with squads. Our friend group is not, like, a strategic thing. There's no stra...
ERIN FOSTER
One Christmas, Dennis Dermody, the movie critic of 'Paper,' gave me 'Rock Hudson: A Gath...
JOHN WATERS
She never called her son by any name but John; 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved...
ELIZABETH GASKELL
Some artists are bound to an image: Bob Marley has dreadlocks, Matisyahu has a beard. But that's...
MATISYAHU
Fanny! You are killing me!"
"No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.
JANE AUSTEN
I have no talent for certainty.
JANE AUSTEN
There's no such thing as altruism.
ANDREW TOBIAS
So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there...
SHERYL SANDBERG
There's no such thing as soy milk. It's soy juice.
LEWIS BLACK
I saw an adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's 'Fanny and Alexander' at the Royal Theatre in Co...
SIDSE BABETT KNUDSEN
Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.
BETH GIBBONS
Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.
JOHN CALHOUN
There's no such thing as quality time; there's only quantity time.
STEVE SCHIRRIPA
There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know ...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL
I think there's no greater healing power than music.
IRVIN MAYFIELD
Dobby has no master. Dobby is a free elf!
J.K. ROWLING
Tabor saved Colorado's fiscal fanny.
JON CALDARA
It is thoroughly irresponsible to promote the use of nuclear power when there is still no technicall...
WENONAH HAUTER
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
MILTON FRIEDMAN
There's no such thing as being too Southern.
LEWIS GRIZZARD
There's no such thing as an independent person.
PETER JENNINGS
There's no such thing as an original sin.
ELVIS COSTELLO
God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute powe...
GERRIT SMITH
Russia - having sat across the table from Vladimir Putin, it's pretty clear when you meet him th...
CARLY FIORINA
I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master.
NEIL YOUNG
Without the ability to talk about government power, there's no way for citizens to make sure thi...
AARON SWARTZ
There's no such thing as 'bad' food or 'good' food.
ELLA WOODWARD
if a man does not master his circumstances then he is bound to be mastered by them.
AMOR TOWLES
Music is such a balm. Always has been. It's such a heartbeat, like blood thrumming through the w...
AL JARREAU
I feel like there's no such thing as gender.
YOUNG THUG
There's no such thing as downtime for your brain.
JEFFREY KLUGER
There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.
CHUCK YEAGER
There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.
MARTIN SCORSESE
It's very irresponsible to deny the reality of a problem to see whether it might stop existing.
CARLES PUIGDEMONT
The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book o...
RICHARD SERRA
I am an actor and mouldable enough to do films like '2 States,' 'Gunday,' and 'F...
ARJUN KAPOOR
No one has ever bought me underwear, and I'm a little bummed about that. Maybe it's not such...
SANDRA BULLOCK
I think it's irresponsible when celebrities imply they're doing it all themselves. My son ha...
ALANIS MORISSETTE
Master, master, old news! And such news as you never heard of!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I think it's unconscionable for a Senator from Massachusetts to come down here and tell the peop...
JEFF MILLER
Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible...
ELLEN TAUSCHER
There's no such thing as writer's block. I'm brilliant all the time every day. It never ...
DAVE FINKEL
Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.
DON SUTTON
The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the ...
MAX VON SYDOW
Not all powers are spectacular. Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.
RICK RIORDAN
There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
BILL BOWERMAN
There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
ABEL FERRARA
In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.
ADAM GRANT
The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Sim...
SAMMY CAHN
There's no such thing as a healthy tan, and that's what people need to understand.
GABRIELLE UNION
I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons!
WARREN SPECTOR
My master's degree was in English literature.
SYLVIA BROWNE
The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself...
OG MANDINO
I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT
I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
OPRAH WINFREY
There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as d...
ELSA LANCHESTER
Modern democracy: Government of the irresponsible, by the irresponsible, for the irresponsible.
MUHAMMED HAIDER
Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They’re organized power on such a scale as...
FRANK HERBERT
The reason that Google was such a success is because they were the first ones to take advantage of t...
RON EGLASH
I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelt...
HORACE
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power ove...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT
There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beau...
CELINE DION
Power has no limits.
TIBERIUS CAESAR
Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery int...
JAMAICA KINCAID
The power lies with content creators now, but if you can't reach people, there's no point.
DANA BRUNETTI
No one talks about woman power. The Spice Girls - they're masquerading as little girls. It's...
KIM GORDON
You will see that one side has all of the power. The other side has no power.
LIZ VIERING
There's no such thing as an aura of mystery anymore. It doesn't exist. That's a thing of...
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
FAY WELDON
It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that ...
TONY BLAIR

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In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.
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I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.
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Wrong is for other people.
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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
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I never liked the men I loved and never loved the men I liked.
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Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.
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Indeed, the freedom with which Dr Johnson condemns whatever he disapproves is astonishing.
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The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
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The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
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