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Why should we acquiesce in the preparation of our spirits for the worst kind of servility—slavery to fate?

There is, at least, no country in Europe in which servility has not invented and vanity received genealogies yet more chimerical.

There is little difficulty in summing up their tenets: it is "Reverence, without servility."

Parliament tried respectful remonstrances in vain; the cardinal thought himself safe in the servility of the nation.

Resistance to power has shut the door of the House of Commons to one man; obsequiousness and servility, to none.

A constitutional habit of servility to his creditor when present before him signalized Algernon.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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