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«The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.»
Author: Lee Iacocca
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Affection
| Keywords:
affections, fallen, lightning, Lightning Strikes, strike
«Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep»
«The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.»
«So much time, and so little to do! Strike that, reverse it.»
«Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
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Poetry
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of his own, reader, remembrance, remembrances, strike, wording, wordings
«Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one»
«There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
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law, precious, robber, steals, strike, The Law
«Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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afterward, Her husband, marries, month, strike
«Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity -it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
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Poetry
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excess, of his own, reader, remembrance, remembrances, singularities, singularity, strike, surprise, wording, wordings
«The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.»
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