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«Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.»
«A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.»
Author: Edith Wharton
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
classic, conformed, conforms, definitions, fits, freshness, irrepressible, The Classics
«But men at whiles are sober / And think by fits and starts, / And if they think, they fasten / Their hands upon their hearts.»
«How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man»
«A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.»
Author: Friedrich von Schiller
(Dramatist, Historian, Philosopher, Poet)
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Guests
| Keywords:
feast, fits, gloomy, guest, wedding, weddings, wedding guest
«A little saint best fits a little shrine, / A little prop best fits a little vine, / As my small cruse best fits my little wine.»
«Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking, to pick it up.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
fits, fresh, incomparably, prediction, predictions, shirt, tightly, tissue, tissues, twenty-four, twenty-four hours, waking, woven
«All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenues»
«Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
at most, compose, familiarity, fits, frequent, indiscriminate, jokes, merry, play a joke on, respectable, romp, sink
«Every true man's apparel fits your thief.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
apparel, appareled, fits, thief
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