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Familiar Quotations

Attestations – "Affirmation"

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.–Roman Gary

We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.–Martha Graham

The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.–Ellen Key

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.–Simone Weil

Use in Literature

Attestations

The letter contained various suggestions in regard to the manner in which Jane ought to conduct herself, none of them at all favorable to submission and concluded with warm attestations of friendship.–T.S. Arthur in Home Lights and Shadows.

In short, as applicable to your case, it becomes virtually a complete and formal attestation of your innocence.–Edward Bulwer-Lytton in What Will He Do With It, book 11.

The rulers of the different countries were deficient in the art and depended on others to write their documents and letters to which they appended their monogram or the sign of the Cross against their names as an attestation. So late as A.–David N. Carvalho in Forty Centuries of Ink.

This is Shakspeare's own attestation to the truth of the idea of Hamlet which I have before put forth.–Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Literary Remains, vol 2.

In life she had humbly exemplified the teachings of our Saviour, and her death was a triumphant attestation of the joy and hope which only the Christian religion can afford in the final hour.–Augusta J. Evans in Beulah.

That God answers prayer and comforts the afflicted among men, I am a living attestation.–Augusta J. Evans in St. Elmo.

He also caused to be published an attestation of his brother's having died a Roman Catholic, together with two papers, drawn up by him, in favour of that persuasion.–Charles James Fox in History of James the Second.

• Preface iv
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Attestations – "Affirmation" 1
• Use in Literature 2
• Attestations 2
• Attestations – "Affirmation" 5
• Nonfiction Usage 7
• Presidential Usage 7
• Legal Usage 7
• Governmental Usage 7
• Patent Usage 7
• Bibliographic Usage 7
• Encyclopedic Usage 12
• Lexicographic Usage 13
• Index 20