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Letter "F" » furnishes
«Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.»
Author: John Locke
(Philosopher)
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furnished with, furnishes, furnishing, materials, mind reading, ours, reading
«A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.»
Author: Thomas Love Peacock
(Author, Satirist)
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furnishes, plaything, playthings, quotations
«Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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Books
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beautifully, furnished with, furnishes, furnishing, furniture
«Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.»
«It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong.»
Author: Anatole France
(Writer)
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constitute, furnishes, moral principle, respected, right and wrong, systematically
«One farmer says to me, ''You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;'' and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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farmer, food supply, furnishes, lumbering, lumbers, plow, raw material, raw materials, religiously, supplying, vegetable
«In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.»
«War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
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Peace,
War
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breathing, breathing time, contrive, contriving, execute, furnishes, leisure, leisure time, prince
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