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Letter "C" » converts
«Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake»
«Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Habit
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converts, daily, dull, enjoyments, luxurious, necessities
«An overflow of good converts to bad.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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converts, overflow, overflowed, overflowing with, overflows
«It appears that some school officials, teachers, and parents have assumed that religious expression of any type is either inappropriate or forbidden altogether in public schools; however, nothing in the First Amendment converts our public schools into religion-free zones.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
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altogether, amendment, assumed, converts, First Amendment, forbidden, free expression, inappropriate, in public, officials, public schools, school teacher, zones
«I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries»
«Nothing is more patent, indeed, than the fact that charity merely converts the unfit - who, in the course of nature, would soon die out and so cease to encumber the earth - into parasites - who live on indefinitely, a nuisance and a burden to their b»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Charity
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converts, die out, encumber, encumbered, encumbering, encumbers, indefinitely, patent, unfit
«People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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causing, converts, likeness, likenesses, peculiar, reflected, represented, thus
«By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Bachelors,
Funny,
Temptation
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converts, permanent, persistently, public, remaining, temptation
«A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it the superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Habit,
Thinking
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appearance, at first, converts, custom, defense, first appearance, formidable, outcry, raises, subside, subsides, subsiding, superficial, tumult, tumults
«Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.»
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