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Letter "A" » aggravate
«Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. You're not gonna change any of them by talking right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.»
«In woman sex corrects banality, in men it aggravates it.»
Author: Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
| Keywords:
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«Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.»
«There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick»
Author: Kin Hubbard
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Excitement,
Routine
| Keywords:
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«Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.»
Author: Christian Nevell Bovee
| Keywords:
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«Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
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«Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Animals
| Keywords:
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«A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
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