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«CURIOSITY, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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active, curiosity, cursed, cursed with, desire to know, female, insatiable, masculine, objectionable
«Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans»
«I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.»
Author: P. G. Wodehouse
| About:
Writing
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a bit, bit, curse, cursed with, typewriter, typewriters
«Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state»
«In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong; When I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten; That her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
| About:
Slavery
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«Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you fight with your neighbor.It makes you shoot at your landlord and it makes you miss him.»
Author: Irish Proverb
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curse, cursed with, drink, fight, land, landlord, Landlords, miss, neighbor, shoot, The Land, The Landlord
«Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.»
«Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness»
«Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
attaches, attaching, attach to, curse, cursed with, development, inaction, in progress, pause, paused, pausing, progress
«My heart prays for him, though my tongue do curse.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
curse, cursed with, prays, though, tongue
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