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Letter "A" » accumulated
«Enriched beyond the dreams of any normal person's avarice, she accumulated possessions with a single-minded lust that calls to mind those ancient Romans who gorged themselves, then vomited so they could gorge again.»
Author: Russell Watson
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«Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.»
Author: William J. Brennan, Jr.
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Congress
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«It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(Novelist, Writer)
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«Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.»
«Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door»
«A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
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«Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear»
«A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
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accumulated, disillusionment, innocence, inoculate, inoculated, inoculating, live out, on paper, poison, recapture, recaptured, set off, succeeds, throw off, virus, viruses, way of life, writes, write off
«It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
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accumulated, gratuitous, reservoir, reservoirs, so to speak
«If what appears little be universally despised, nothing greater can be attained; for all that is great was at first little, and rose to its present bulk by gradual accessions and accumulated labours»
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