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«Friendship lives on its income, love devours its capital»
«Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.»
«Our envy of others devours us most of all»
«A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.»
«Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?»
«Finance, like time, devours its own children.»
«Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life... is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
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blasphemy, devours, in secret, obscenity, secret societies, secret society
«Fire is born from wood (as two sticks are rubbed together), but then devours its parents. »
«He that is proud eats up himself; pride in his glass, his trumpet, his chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise»
«Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.»
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