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Letter "C" » cursed
«CURIOSITY, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans»
«Family jokes, through rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive»
«A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant. We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics.»
Author: May Sarton
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«But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD's anointed? / And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto me? shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I am this day king over Israel? / Therefore the king said unto Shimei, Thou shalt not die. And the king sware unto him.»
«Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen.»
«Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.»
«For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.»
«Cursed is this world and cursed is all that is in this world, except the remembrance of God and that which aideth thereto»
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