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Letter "E" » epithet
«`Bourgeois', I observed, `is an epithet which the riff-raff apply to what is respectable, and the aristocracy to what is decent.'»
Author: Anthony Hope
(Writer)
| Keywords:
apply, aristocracy, decent, epithet, epithets, observed, respectable, riff, riffs
«The world enslaves our sex by the mere fear of an epithet; and as long as it can throw any vile term at us, before which we cower, it can maintain our enslavement»
Author: Tennessee Claflin
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World
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cower, cowering, enslavement, enslaves, epithet, epithets, vile
«In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.»
Author: Paul Gauguin
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Art,
Revolution
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epithet, epithets, Masters, merited, other than, predecessors, revolutionary
«A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them»
«I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow-creatures; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go»
«Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
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Common sense
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bestowed, bestowing, blasphemies, blasphemy, common sense, epithet, epithets, superstition
«Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.»
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