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«Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman's sink and a brilliant sculpture.»
«The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.»
Author: Richard Rorty
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
dialogues, handsome, nobleman, noblemen, picture writing, plebeian, Socrates, topics, usual
«So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.»
«PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.Cold pie was highly esteemed by the remains. --Rev. Dr. Mucker(in a funeral sermon over a British nobleman)Cold pie is a detestable American comestible. That's why I'm done --or undone -- So far from that dear London.(from the headstone of a British nobleman in Kalamazoo)»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
comestible, Dr., Dr, esteemed, headstone, indigestion, Kalamazoo, nobleman, reaper, reapers, rev, revving
«A nobleman is Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
high life, nobleman
«MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
English, indocile, mustang, nobleman, noblemen, plains, The American, The Western, Western, westerns
«Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman, but he cannot make a gentleman.»
«Philosophy did not find Plato already a nobleman! it made him one»
«Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise, that this well-dressed young man is rich when he is really a penniless adventurer, or that if I do this such and such a result will follow when in fact it results in something very different. All good drama has two movements, first the making of the mistake, then the discovery that it was a mistake.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
adventurer, adventurers, chambermaid, disguise, drama, dressed, first base, married person, Movements, nobleman, noblemen, penniless, rich person, such-and-such, The Discovery, young man
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