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    The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.†  (source)
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    "No, indeed," replied Monte Cristo with a smile, "I do not arrogate to myself the right of so doing."†  (source)
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    There came a time when he took over from the priest, who in murky and misanthropic eras of the past was permitted to arrogate the education of youth to himself.†  (source)
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    It was consoling, under the hovering terror of to-morrow's separation, to feel that he really recognized her now as his wife Tess, and did not cast her off, even if in that recognition he went so far as to arrogate to himself the right of harming her.†  (source)
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    To be sure, the people will make mistakes—they will get no better government than they deserve—but that is far better than the representative of the people arrogating for himself the right to say he knows better than they what is good for them.†  (source)
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    Resign, the powers you Jaave arrogated.†  (source)
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    Not poets alone, nor artist, nor that superior order of mind which arrogates to itself all refinement, feel this, but dogs and all men.†  (source)
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    First, that 'no social organization can or ought to arrogate to itself power to dispose of the civic and political rights of its members.'†  (source)
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    —it's not this, not this that she is depending on to keep body and soul together: it is as though she were living on the actual blood itself like a vampire, not with insatiability, certainly not with voracity, but with that serene and idle splendor of Rowers arrogating to herself, because it fills her veins also, nourishment from the old blood that crossed uncharted seas and continents and battled wilderness hardships and lurking circumstances and fatalities, with tranquil disregard of whatever onerous carks to leisure and even peace which the preservation of it incurs upon what might be called the contemporary transmutable fountainhead who contrives to keep the crass foodbearing corpuscles†  (source)
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    She arrogated to herself the right because Edward's affairs were in such a frightful state and he lied so about them that she claimed the privilege of having his secrets at her disposal.†  (source)
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    It is the older man who moves first, though they meet in the center of the tent, where they embrace and kiss before Henry is aware that be has moved, was going to move, moved by what of close blood which in the reflex instant arrogates and reconciles even though it does not yet (perhaps never will) forgive, who stands now while his father holds his face between both hands, looking at it.†  (source)
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    And who are you, then, that arrogate to yourself this tyrannical right over free and rational beings?†  (source)
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    A few years ago, the Rajah would have taken the hint, for the Political Agent then had been a formidable figure, descending with all the thunders of Empire when it was most inconvenient, turning the polity inside out, requiring motor-cars and tiger-hunts, trees cut down that impeded the view from the Guest House, cows milked in his presence, and generally arrogating the control of internal affairs.†  (source)
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