As you have invited me, I cannot come, for I have made a rule to decline all invitations; but I will come the next day.
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Quoted in Beatrice Hatch, "Lewis Carroll", Strand Magazine (April 1898), p.422.Lewis Carroll
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It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights.
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne
I decline the election. — It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.
Edmund Burke
I hereby state, and mean all I say, that I never have been and never will be a candidate for President; that if nominated by either party I should peremptorily decline; and even if unanimously elected I should decline to serve.
William Tecumseh Sherman
When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.
Winston Churchill
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