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«A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.»
Author: Elsa Schiaparelli
(Fashion designer)
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cook, dispensed, dispenses, dispensing, sorceress, sorceresses
«Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.»
Author: George Sand
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Charity
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degrades, dispense, dispensed, dispenses, dispensing, hardens
«Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries»
Author: John Lothrop Motley
(Diplomat, Historian)
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Luxury
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dispense, dispensed, dispenses, dispense with, dispensing, luxuries, necessaries
«All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
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Blessings
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benefit, blessings, deposited, depositing, deposits, dispensed, dispenses, dispensing, neighbors
«Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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Charity,
Generosity
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dispensed, dispenses, dispensing, generosity
«Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it»
«If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful to her that she absolutely cannot dispense with it from this moment onward the idea of annihilation which we attach to death ceases to be real what we call the end of the living animal is no longer a true finish, but a simple transformation, a transmutation of matter. According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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«Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Equality,
Government
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charming, disorder, dispensed, dispenses, dispensing, equality, equals, form of government, variety
«Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
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Beauty,
Gifts
| Keywords:
dispensed, dispenses, dispensing, wicked
«None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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armed, army, dispense, dispensed, dispenses, dispense with, dispensing
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