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«It's not that I don't want to be a beauty, that I don't yearn to be dripping with glamour. It's just that I can't see how any woman can find time to do to herself all the things that must apparently be done to make herself beautiful and, having once done them, how anyone without the strength of mind of a foreign missionary can keep up such a regime.»
Author: Cornelia Otis Skinner
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apparently, drip, dripped, dripping, missionary, regime, yearn
«He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.»
Author: Craig Claiborne
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Cooking
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cooking, experimenter, experimenters, gospel, innovator, innovators, missionary
«'For what we are about to receive, Oh Lord 'tis Thee we thank,' said the cannibal as he cut a slice off the missionary's shank.»
«Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death»
Author: Friedrich Max Muller
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Christianity
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advancing, aggressive, bands, converting, encompass, encompassed, encompasses, encompassing, missionary
«Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.»
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Author, Philanthropist, Writer)
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expectant, instructed, missionary, sharks, slave ship
«The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.»
Author: Paul Gauguin
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chastity, corpse, deform, deformed, deforms, distressing, emasculated, engaged, gallows, impotent, in a sense, missionary, offers, sentiments, sodomy, spectacle, vow
« Always remember that I am a poet, not a philosopher. Remember always that I am not a missionary, but a musician playing on the harp of your heart. »
«Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a nice plump missionary»
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