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Letter "N" » noblemen
«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.»
«They value themselves much upon their antiquity: The ancient race of their houses, and families, and the like; and above all, upon their ancient heroes: their King Caractacus Owen ap Tudor, Prince Lewellin, and the like noblemen and princes of Britis»
Author: Daniel Defoe
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and the like, antiquities, family values, houses, noblemen, Owen, prince, princes, the like, Tudor
«He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.»
«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.»
«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)
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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)
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adventurer, adventurers, chambermaid, disguise, drama, dressed, first base, married person, Movements, nobleman, noblemen, penniless, rich person, such-and-such, The Discovery, young man
«The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.»
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