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Letter "L" » lamp
«An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.»
Author: Andrew Lang
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drunken, forecaster, forecasters, illumination, illuminations, lamp, posts, unsophisticated
«Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as if you have just come back from somewhere expensive»
«An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.»
«Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
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dawn, extinguishes, extinguishing, lamp, putting, putting to death, The Light
«Anger blows out the lamp of the mind»
«Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp post how it feels about dogs»
Author: Ann Landers
(Advice columnist)
| About:
Writers
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asking, critics, dogs, feels, lamp, our critics, post, posted, posting, writer
«A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.»
Author: Rebecca West
(Writer)
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cutting, cut away, dead hand, Dead Things, go over, lamp, revere, revering
«Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
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Anger
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examination, lamp, pulsed, serene
«Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.»
«He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes.»
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