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"Amity" Quotes from Famous Books

... the devil take the devil! A plague! was ever man served so as I am! [Throws his hat upon the ground.] To break the bands of amity for one hundred pieces! Well, it shall be more out of thy way than thou imaginest, devil: I'll turn parson, and be at open defiance with thee: I'll lay the wickedness of all people upon thee, though thou art never so innocent; I'll convert thy bawds and whores; I'll Hector thy gamesters, ...

— The Works of John Dryden, Vol. II • Edited by Walter Scott

... acquainted with various localities there. As to when and why he had left Canada the stranger was also totally ignorant. He knew, however, that Randall was living in the city of New York about three months ago, as he had seen him there, and had visited him at his lodgings on Amity street in May, when he (Haskins) had attended as a delegate to a sporting convention. At that time Randall had been employed in some capacity in Hitchcock's sale stable, and made a few dollars now and again by breeding dogs. He lived a needy hand-to-mouth existence, and his poor wife had a ...

— The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales • John Charles Dent

... for human amity, Denies or damps an undivided joy. * * * Joy is an exchange; Joy flies monopolists; Delight ...

— The Young Maiden • A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey

... of Agrigentum, a Pythagorean; he held that there are two principal powers in nature, amity ...

— Trips to the Moon • Lucian

... obvious. In fact, we cannot affirm goodness, badness, or indifference of motive, except in the particular instance. A better classification is into the social—including goodwill, love of reputation, desire of amity, religion; dissocial—displeasure; self-regarding—physical desire, pecuniary interest, ...

— The World's Greatest Books--Volume 14--Philosophy and Economics • Various

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