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Only those the splendidly self-confident British upper classes would deign to deliberately and with self-ease not italicise a French loanword; in doing so, I was in fact expressing my position as not being of such social elevation.
Matthew Yglesias » Rich Bankers: We Want Trillions of Dollars 2009
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Here alone is a power strong enough to compel us to simplify our life and restore its old divine order of marriage and hard work, of "plain living and high thinking," which luxury and self-ease are fast undermining.
The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis Ellice Hopkins
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Is your heart so tender that it feels the suffering of the child or the pain of the dumb animal to the extent that you find pleasure in giving relief even at the expense of self-ease?
How to Live a Holy Life Charles Ebert Orr 1897
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In this waking there are the usual strugglings of flesh and spirit, of inclination against duty, of prejudice against principle, and of foolish and fleshly parleyings with self-ease, pride and luxury.
The Providential Significance of the Death of Abraham Lincoln 1865
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The cry of humanity and its needs rang clearer and stronger than a life of self-ease and inactivity.
Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction Compiled and edited by Hallie Q. Brown 250 p., ill. Hallie Quinn 1864
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