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Letter "C" » childish
«I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance»
«Is suffering so very serious? I have come to doubt it. It may be quite childish, a sort of undignified pastime / I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful. I agree that it's hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain deserves no consideration at all. It's no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.»
Author: Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
(Writer)
| Keywords:
bearable, childish, consideration, inflicts, pastime, referring, undignified
«In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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aberration, aberrations, childish, directing, equilibrium, follies, inheriting, justifies, Left Behind, naively
«Let simple Wordsworth chime his childish verse, / And brother Coleridge lull the babe at nurse.»
«It is the ignorant and childish part of man that is the fighting part»
«Some of you may remember that in my early days, I was sort of a bleeding heart liberal. Then I became a man and put away childish ways.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
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became, bleeding, bleeding heart, childish, early, early days, liberal, My early days, put away, Some of, sort, sort of
«My Dear Sir: Are you playing the same trick again, and trying who can keep silence longest? Remember that all tricks are either knavish or childish; and that it is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity o»
«There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
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bewail, bewailed, bewailing, childish, The Order
«Sweet childish days, that were as long as twenty days are now»
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