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«Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: ''It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss... ''»

Author: Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Writer) | Keywords: abyss, clock, consumed, display, flinging, flings, four o clock, frenzy, routine, senses, surface, The Abyss, Voluptuaries, voluptuary

«To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible»

Author: Benjamin Franklin (Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer) | Keywords: cast, cast about, cast on, development, display, energy, faculties, fortune, lap, Lapped, lapping, laps, previously, resources, thrown, undergo, undergone, underwent, unsusceptible

«We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency - clear disinterested thinking and fearless action»

Author: Woodrow T. Wilson (President) | About: America and Americans, Character, Spirit | Keywords: display, fearless, Spirit of America

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