motto
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The plaintive observation, ascribed to the early Victorian British Prime Minister Viscount Melbourne about the acerbically self-confident historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, remains the motto of the thoughtfully skeptical man through the ages.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
Laxmi Ghimire, another activist at Sunday's protest, said "promoting a motto of good governance will not make the country and its people feel it".
From Barron's • Mar. 22, 2026
With a motto of "If we have it, you can have it", the charity has sent out thousands of items anonymously to parents to collect from 16 libraries.
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026
“Out with the old mess, in with the new” is the reality genre’s unspoken motto, but let’s think about what that means here.
From Salon • Mar. 21, 2026
And don’t forget our motto: “Life is a game, and books are the tokens.”
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
Vocabulary lists containing motto
"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" by Rudyard Kipling
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Because of Winn-Dixie
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Divergent
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