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Letter "I" » in large quantities
«Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.»
Author: Frederick Saunders
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beneficial, injurious, in large quantities, laudanum, medicines, poisonous, quantities
«Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.»
«Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess»
Author: Walter Savage Landor
(Writer)
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Truth
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attended, calms, heats, in large quantities, juice, juices, poppies, poppy, quantities
«I always get back to the question, is it really necessary that men should consume so much of their bodily and mental energies in the machinery of civilized life? The world seems to me to do much of its toil for that which is not in any sense bread. Again, does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?''»
Author: William Allingham
(Man of letter, Poet)
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bodily, energies, infuse, infused, infuses, in large quantities, mental energy, sense of purpose, that much
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