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We weren't going to play the show-biz game, and be obsequious. -- Neil Innes
Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination. -- Samuel Johnson
Bees are a good omen to Kings, for they signify an obsequious people. -- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
grateful people are a bore and become obsequious, which causes their benefactors to doubt the wisdom of their choice. -- Silvia Tennenbaum
How many a holy and obsequious tear hath dear religious love stolen from mine eye, as interest of the dead! -- William Shakespeare
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. -- Washington Irving
But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend. -- Walter Raleigh
Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants. -- Alexander Hamilton
I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board. -- Henry David Thoreau
Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires, he has a will of his own, he chooses between incompatible ends. -- Ludwig von Mises
He was as obsequious as a Japanese ivy plant. Wringing his hands as if he hoped to squeeze the milk of human kindness from his fingernails, ... -- Philip Kerr

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