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“To be sure—our discordancies must always arise from my being in the wrong.”

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

Ardt's line: "Sein Vaterland muss grösser sein!" was the watchword and inspiration of all three, and dominated their discordancies.

From Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places by Forbes, Archibald

"To be sure—our discordancies must always arise from my being in the wrong."

From Emma by Austen, Jane

In dreams all sorts of absurdities, impossibilities, discordancies, and violation of natural law appear realities, without exciting the least surprise or suspicion.

From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by Lloyd, John Uri

There are other minute discordancies between theory and observation in many astronomical phenomena, which theory is competent to remove.

From Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence by Bassnett, Thomas