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«Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.»
«Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.»
Author: Amy Vanderbilt
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Manners
| Keywords:
exhibit, exhibited, exhibiting, exhibits, good manners, One Ring, ring
«It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.»
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
(Novelist)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
besets, besetting, democracies, exhibit, exhibited, exhibiting, exhibits, public opinion, usual
«Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.»
Author: John Gielgud
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
acting, exhibited, exhibiting, exhibits, glory, shame
«Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited.»
«By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will be neglected or actually despised. The style will often be strange, incorrect, overburdened, and loose, and almost always strong and bold. Writers will be more anxious to work quickly than to perfect details. Short works will be commoner than long books, wit than erudition, imagination than depth. There will be a rude and untutored vigor of thought with great variety and singular fecundity. Authors will strive to astonish more than to please, and to stir passions rather than to charm taste.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
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«A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
being brave, brave, braver, Braves, braving, coward, exhibited, exhibiting, exhibits, incapable, prerogative, prerogatives
«Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
commensurate, compel, competitive, considerable, contemporary, exhibits, phenomena
«After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
advantages, ceremony, drawing room, excessive, exhibits, field of battle, noses, pretension, rubbing, shaking, The Faces
«A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.»
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