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Letter "A" » amiable
«I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.»
«Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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Modesty
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amiable, contemptible
«It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.»
«I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
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amiable, aspiration, assertion, authors, Fear and Trembling, for a while, self assertion, trembling
«I have lived long enough, and had experience enough of the conduct of governments and people, nations and courts, to be convinced that gratitude, friendship, unsuspecting confidence, and all the amiable passions in human nature, are the most dangerou»
«O fairest of creation! last and best / Of all God's works! Creature in whom excelled / Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, / Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet!»
«Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
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Love
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admiration, amiable, beloved, cherishing, The Beloved, The Object of
«No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.»
«I would wish my countrymen to adopt just so much of European politeness as to be ready to make all those little sacrifices of self, which really render Europeans amiable, and relieve society from the disagreeable scenes to which rudeness often subjec»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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amiable, countrymen, European, politeness, relieve, rudeness, scenes
«Liberty guest amiable, Plants both elbows on the table»
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