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Letter "C" » crumbs
«I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.»
Author: Bishop Desmond Tutu
(Novelist, Spiritual leader)
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«The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him»
Author: Crystal Eastman
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Men
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cheerful, crumb, crumbs, cultivated, grocer, household, inefficiency, protects, telephone, telephone number
«All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.»
«And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.»
«And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.»
«There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: / And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, / And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.»
«The dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.»
«It is not, truly speaking, the labor that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men --broken into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
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breaking point, crumbs, exhausts, fragments, nail, segment, segments
«It is not the statesman, the warrior, or the monarch that survives, but the despised poet, whom they may have fed with their crumbs, and to whom they owe that they are now or have a name»
«And Father, how can I love youOr any of my brothers more?I love you like the little birdThat picks up crumbs around the door.»
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