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Letter "G" » great grandfather
«The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate.»
Author: Bern Williams
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brag, bragging, brags, bristle, bristles, bristling, bristling with, discovers, dishonest, grandfather, grandfathers, great grandfather, His father, pirate, pirates
«My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop.»
Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(Composer)
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eloquently, grandfather, grandmother, great grandfather, great grandmother, Great One, in turn, Mothers And Daughters, repeated
«I told them that my grandfather had died in the Great Crash of 1929 - a stockbroker jumped out of a window and crushed him and his pushcart down below.»
Author: Mario Cuomo
| About:
Death and dying
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crushed, great grandfather, jumped, pushcart
«Thus, it comes to pass, that a certain room in a certain old hall, where a certain bad lord, baronet, knight, or gentleman, shot himself, has certain planks in the floor from which the blood will not be taken out. You may scrape and scrape, as the present owner has done, or plane and plane, as his father did, or scrub and scrub, as his grandfather did, or burn and burn with strong acids, as his great-grandfather did, but, there the blood will still be - no redder and no paler - no more and no less - always just the same.»
«The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store didn't pay much, but he felt it was better than what everybody else did, which was go up to the volcano and collect the gold nuggets it shot out every day. It turned out he was right. After forty years, the volcano petered out. Everybody left town, and the hardware store went broke. Finally he decided to collect gold nuggets too, but there weren't many left by then. Plus, he broke his leg and the doctor's bills were real high.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
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bills, Bill of Rights, broke, collect, go up, grandfather, great grandfather, hardware, hardware store, laughed, leg, nugget, peter out, plus, The Doctor, turned out, volcano, volcanoes
«To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose»
Author: Marcus Aurelius
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Family
| Keywords:
dispense with, grandfather, great grandfather, grudged, owed
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