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«The Sixties were an oyster decade: slippery, luxurious and reportedly aphrodisiac they slipped down the historical throat without touching the sides»
Author: Julian Barnes
(Author, Critic)
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aphrodisiac, historical, luxurious, reportedly, slippery, touching, touch down
«Harvard was a kind of luxurious afternoon.»
«Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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Habit
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converts, daily, dull, enjoyments, luxurious, necessities
«To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.»
«To spend several days in a friend's house and hunger for something to read, while you are treading on costly carpets, and sitting upon luxurious chairs and sleeping upon down, is as if one were bribing your body for the sake of cheating your mind»
«Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak. They a»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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and then some, luxurious, nil, resolutions
«Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Men
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conservatives, luxurious, vigorous
«Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.»
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