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rivals Quotes

Seven of the best book quotes about rivals
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“Now, if we are made for heaven, the desire for our proper place will be already in us, but not yet attached to the true object, and will even appear as the rival of that object.”
C. S. Lewis
author
The Weight of Glory
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life
truth
heaven
desires
satisfaction
rivals
man vs the natural world
gospel
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“For one thing, the bidding hadn’t been a contest between Dr. Crab and Nobu at all. It had ended up a contest between Dr. Crab and the Baron.”
Dr. Crab
Toshikazu Nobu
The Baron
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“I’d earned more in the past six months than both Hatsumomo and Pumpkin combined.”
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″‘Rochefort,’ said the cardinal, ‘you see M. D’Artagnan- I receive him among the number of my friends; embrace, then, and be prudent, if you have any wish to preserve your heads.‘”
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“I no longer cared that we were supposed to be rivals.”
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“Such was the formidable rival with whom Ichabod Crane had to contend, and, considering all things, a stouter man than he would have shrunk from the competition, and a wiser man would have despaired. He had, however, a happy mixture of pliability and perseverance in his nature; he was in form and spirit like a supple-jack—yielding, but tough; though he bent, he never broke; and though he bowed beneath the slightest pressure, yet, the moment it was away—jerk!—he was as erect, and carried his head as high as ever.”
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“Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.”

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