I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must leave others to wear the laurels which I have sown, others to eat the bread which I have earned. A common case.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat
of my bread, hath lifted up his hee... BIBLE Don't eat the bread unless you want to leave bread crumbs. ANTHONY T. HINCKS I'm benefitting from the sacrifices and seeds sown by Shirley Chisholm, John Lewis, and so many ... TERRI SEWELL Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I com... BIBLE For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping. BIBLE I know on which side my bread is buttered PROVERB With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and ex... G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and ex... GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle. HENRI ROUSSEAU Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel... BIBLE For me, I just like to cut out bread. I like to keep the good carbs in my diet - I love pasta and It... ASHLEY TISDALE The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of hea... EDWARD IRVING I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. ... NANDAN NILEKANI I am an African. I am white. I, in my humble way, and others in their much more brave way, have earn... NADINE GORDIMER My mother did not have a toaster oven and would toast bread in the oven, which I thought was stupid.... JAMES TURRELL The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as w... ANATOLE FRANCE My nutritionist has done a great job in changing my diet after we established I am allergic to thing... NOVAK DJOKOVIC I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor me... JEAN PIAGET More people are asking me to come and sing for them, so obviously I am getting more work. But apart ... ARIJIT SINGH I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail... GARRISON KEILLOR My determination is not to remain stubbornly with my ideas, but I'll leave them and go over to o... ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK I wont quarrel with my bread and butter. JONATHAN SWIFT the study of jurisprudence, by which I must earn my bread, has so withered and frozen the flowers of... ROBERT SCHUMANN I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread CHARLES BUKOWSKI Sunday's my day off, where I eat whatever I want. I don't not let myself have something. I d... ASHLEY TISDALE I wrote a techno song about the four things I love in Germany to make myself happy, which are my gra... FLULA BORG I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poo... JEAN PIAGET If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a det... BEATRICE POTTER WEBB If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a det... BEATRICE WEBB But I would have executed much greater things, had not government always opposed my exertions, and p... ADAM WEISHAUPT I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when i... JANE GREY I here ask pardon of all my compatriots for everything of which I have been guilty towards them. I k... NIKOLAI GOGOL Leave the poor
Some time for self-improvement. Let them not
Be forced to grind the bones out ... PHILIP JAMES BAILEY I love my kitchen. For Manhattan, I have a rather decent-size kitchen, and it has an opening that gi... MIREILLE GUILIANO I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current s... KAY REDFIELD JAMISON People are relying on local fruit, and they have little food to eat. I went out to get bread, and co... AFTAB SHERPAO People are relying on local fruit, and they have little food to eat. I went out to get bread, and co... AFTAB KHAN SHERPAO I have a necklace with a golden key, given to me by my sisters, which I always wear. KARLIE KLOSS Bread pudding makes me weak. I have been known to be moved to tears by cookies and ice cream, and ri... BILL RANCIC There is a time for everything, also for my time in politics which has been long and eventful. Now I... JOHANNA SIGUROARDOTTIR My overcoat is worn out; my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the ... WILLIAM TYNDALE I was doing what I have done for most of my life, which is to cover for the mistakes of others when ... ELIZABETH STROUT Wait, we can not break bread with you. You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from ... PAUL RUDNICK My secret skill is baking bread. My mother was a farmer's daughter and still made bread every da... RICHARD FLANAGAN From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bri... EDGAR ALLAN POE In L.A., I love being with my friends and being able to eat out and wear tank tops at night. BELLA HADID For breakfast, I always have eggs - whole eggs. I think the fats are really important. I also like t... SUMMER GLAU For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread on the... JAN KARON Every morning, I eat one fat-free yogurt with a sliced peach when peaches are in season, and one thi... LEONARD LAUDER I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but al... RENE DESCARTES As soon as I am up, I brush my hair. I eat breakfast first: tea and brown bread, and sometimes a fre... SONIA RYKIEL In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always fo... WINSTON CHURCHILL In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always fo... WINSTON S. CHURCHILL I tell you I must go! Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automa... CHARLOTTE BRONTE I could live on fresh bread. My parents, who are Polish, have brought us up on varieties of bread fr... CARMEN MARTON A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them o... THOMAS JEFFERSON I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected ... KATE MOSS We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread. THOMAS DAY The bread which is taken, blessed, broken and shared out, is Christ, who is that ladder linking heav... ARTHUR MIDDLETON We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread. JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The best way to find out what you have in common with others is to listen. JEFFREY BENJAMIN I have the ability and to have access to and to learn more in different areas in wellness and health... MONTEL WILLIAMS I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... , IN THE NEW REPUBLIC Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even... BIBLE I am told by others that I have a lateral-thinking, broad approach to problems, sometimes to my detr... BARRY MARSHALL From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I... EDGAR ALLAN POE I'm always watching my weight. I don't eat sweets like cookies or chocolate. But bread is different.... DANIELA PESTOVA I always showed myself in the face of day, asserting the liberty and independence of my country, whi... WILLIAM WALLACE From childhood's hour I have not been As others were - I have not seen As others saw - I c... EDGAR ALLAN POE And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and... SOLOMON IBN GABIROL And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and... SOLOMON IBN GABIROL BEN JUDAH As a young child, I suffered from poor health. My parents encouraged me to swim, which really improv... SUI HE The garlic bread lay there between them, steaming with implications. They, of course, must both eat ... CHRISTOPHER MOORE I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Sometimes the bread winner of a family is the offender in a case, and we have to find help for the p... ANDI WISE The awkward moment in which I discover that both my wife and my sister have made out with the same g... RACHEL MORGAN I like bread, and I like butter - but I like bread with butter best. SARAH WEINER There are times in my life when I have been medicine for some while poison for others. I used to thi... STEVE MARABOLI There are times in my life when I have been medicine for some while poison for others. I used to thi... STEVE MARABOLI Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under th... LEO TOLSTOY I have kept track of the boy with the bread. SUZANNE COLLINS Everyone is a racist even I, in the face of the fact that, sometimes I hate my self part which infli... PRATEEK BARAPATRE I saw Boy George looking amazing, absolutely unbelievable, and messaged him asking for the number of... JAMES CORDEN When I moved to Los Angeles, I was straight out of grad school, and I didn't have a single credi... DARBY STANCHFIELD You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter,... OSCAR WILDE If the people have no bread, let them eat cake. MARIE ANTOINETTE I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I ... LIV ULLMANN And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him f... BIBLE I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, ... IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this centur... JIMMY CARTER With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are... IAIN DUNCAN SMITH Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirit... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW There must be fish. You have to put out the fish but you either don't eat it or you have to leave so... DING LAN As a committed Christian, I have always struggled with locked doors—doors by which we on the insid... BRIAN D. MCLAREN I believe in collaboration, which is why I work with others to make positive contributions of conseq... CLIFF CURTIS If you have earned money you have earned something, if you have earned friends something better and ... RAMESH KAVDIA(RAMESH BABA) I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you. EMINEM I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have... GAIL SIMMONS The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before b... VICTOR HUGO
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Nor wants that little long,"
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... JOHN QUINCY ADAMS This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe,
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