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«It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.»
«She even had a kind of special position among men: she was an exception, she fitted none of the categories they commonly used when talking about girls; she wasn't a cock-teaser, a cold fish, an easy lay or a sneaky bitch; she was an honorary person. She had grown to share their contempt for most women.»
«QUILL, n. An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ass. This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlasting Presence.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
commonly, equivalent, everlasting, goose, implement, implemented, implementing, implements, obsolete, pen, quill, quills, steel, The Quill, torture, wield, wielded, wields, yielded
«MALE, n. A member of the unconsidered, or negligible sex. The male of the human race is commonly known (to the female) as Mere Man. The genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
commonly, female, genus, human race, member, negligible, providers, unconsidered, varieties
«Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Learning,
Men,
Opinions,
Thinking
| Keywords:
commonly, custom, imbibed, imbibes, inclinations
«I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway»
«No man has ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his cloths; yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
cloths, commonly, estimation, estimations, fashionable, lower, patch, patched
«So our Lord God commonly gives riches to those gross asses to whom He vouchsafes nothing else»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| Keywords:
asses, commonly, gross, grossed, grosser, grossest, gross out, Lord's table, riches, vouchsafe, vouchsafed, vouchsafes
«Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.»
«Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Moderation
| Keywords:
commonly, firmness, moderation
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