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Cynicism is the besetting and venial fault of declining youth, and disillusionment its last illusion.
— Francis Macdonald Cornford
The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and elbow room.
— Brendan I. Koerner
In his gambling, he had one besetting weakness faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain. — Jack London
It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
— James F. Cooper
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
— Samuel Butler
Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
— P. J. O'Rourke
You ask a lot of questions, don't you?""My brother always says curiosity is my besetting sin. — Cassandra Clare
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Everyone has his besetting sin.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Allan about besetting sins last Sunday
— L.M. Montgomery
The besetting evil of our age is the temptation to squander and dilute thought on a thousand different lines of inquiry.
— John Herschel
But what courage can withstand the ever-during and all-besetting terrors of a woman's tongue?
— Washington Irving
The besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.
— John Stuart Mill
Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.
— Charles B. Rangel
But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
— Jean De La Fontaine