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«Usually speaking, the worst bred person in company is a young traveler just returned from abroad»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
| About:
Travel
| Keywords:
abroad, bred, ill-bred, ill-breeding, returned, traveler
«The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches; some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground.»
Author: Margaret Mead
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«The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Self-development,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
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«There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Books,
Christmas,
Literature
| Keywords:
as yet, at present, bred, customs, delightful, draw in, exercises, fallacies, fallacy, flavour, holiday, joyous, painted, picture book, recall, rural, yore
«Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.»
«There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.»
«Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.»
«There isn't anything you can't stand, if you are only born and bred to it»
«There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
bred, distemper, distempered, distempers, headache, leprosy, namely, peremptorily, sciatica, well-bred
«Tell me where is fancy bred.Or in the heart or in the head?»
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