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Tag Name "Allowable" (15)

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Not to perceive the little weaknesses and the idle but innocent affectations of the company may be allowable as a sort of polite duty. The company will be pleased with you if you do, and most probably will not be reformed by you if you do not.
Lord Chesterfield
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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
Miguel de Cervantes
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In a physical contest on the field of battle it is allowable to use tactics and strategy, to retreat as well as advance, to have recourse to a ruse as well as open attack but in matters of principle there can be no tactics, there is one straight forward course to follow and that course must be found and followed without swerving to the end.
Terence MacSwiney
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The biblical case for vegetarianism does not rest on the view that killing may never be allowable in the eyes of God, rather on the view that killing is always a grave matter. When we have to kill to live we may do so, but when we do not, we should live otherwise.
Andrew Linzey
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Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable we do not expect him to be above it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
Isaac Barrow
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During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that though they are forbidden, it is but natural to wish that they were at least allowable. Nothing can be more delightful, except it be to abandon them for virtue's sake.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book in conversation a little excess is allowable.
Joseph Joubert
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Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
Pierre Corneille
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In Southern California along the coast, if the only thing you can do with the land is agriculture, it would be substantially less (in value) than property that has almost any other allowable use.
Bill Vaughan
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No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose.
Eudora Welty
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In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.
James M. Barrie
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Egotism is more like an offense, than a crime though it is allowable to speak of yourself, provided nothing is advanced in favor but I cannot help suspecting that those who abuse themselves are, in reality, angling for approbation.
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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It is always allowable to ask for artichoke jelly with your boiled venison however there are houses where this is not supplied.
Lewis Carroll