"Deserve" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... am very sensible that you have conducted yourself, with regard to my MS., in the most honourable, kind, and judicious manner; and I very much regret the result of your exertions, which neither of us deserve. ...
— A Publisher and His Friends • Samuel Smiles
... possesses every charm, quality, and virtue, that can bless man; and because, though I can make her no equivalent return, I have a heart, if I know myself, that would struggle to deserve her.' ...
— Coningsby • Benjamin Disraeli
... you. Herbert, you are concealing something from me. What have I done to deserve it? Have I not enjoyed your confidence these many years, and have you ever known me betray it? Is it marriage that has changed ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 146., January 14, 1914 • Various
... he observed, after reflection; "you deserve more sacrifice on my part than this. But all confidence must cease between us: from this time we are to each ...
— The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 • Various
... carriage?' says mother. 'He drivin' himself?' 'No,' says father. 'He'd jest lifted Annie in, an' there was a paper blew along the road, an' they started.' 'Annie?' says mother, 'that little mite? He don't deserve to have a child. Why, father,' says she, lookin' up over her glasses,—mother had near-sighted eyes,—'your clo's are all tore off o' you, an' there's your hand all bleedin'.' Father begun to wash himself up at the sink, an' while he stood there, in walked the judge. ...
— Country Neighbors • Alice Brown
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