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Letter "B" » breeding
«Homelessness is not just an isolated social evil. It is the catalyst and the breeding ground for other problems such as marriage difficulties and family breakup, stress, unemployment and alcoholism..»
Author: Eva Burrows
| Keywords:
alcoholism, breakup, breeding, breeding ground, catalyst, catalysts, homelessness, isolated, The Catalyst
«Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium»
Author: Cyril Connolly
| Keywords:
apathy, breeding, breeding ground, delirium, grounds, incubator, incubators, middle class, slum, slumming, slums, suburb, suburbs
«It's a naive domestic little Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
amused, breeding, burgundy, domestic, naive, presumption, presumptions
«Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy /common clay, if you like /eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others /the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.»
Author: Jean Anouilh
(Dramatist, Playwright, Screenwriter)
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«Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
breeding, features, steadiness, stillness
«I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.»
«Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.»
«It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.»
«If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
aside, breeding, coarse, coarser, coarsest, degenerate, disgust, familiarity, infallibly, intimacy, lay aside, mistress, nights, productive
«Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets!»
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