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Letter "O" » ornament
«I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.»
Author: Alanis Morisette
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ornament
«Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.»
Author: Henry Anatole Grunwald
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Action
| Keywords:
libel, ornament, perspective, replaced, resort, resort to
«Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.»
«As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.»
«As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.»
«Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.»
«Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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Adversity,
Education
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adversity, ornament, ornamented, prosperity, refuge
«I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavour themselves by way of amends to be a help and ornament thereunto.»
«Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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distinguished, esteemed, floating, gall, insects, leaf, lily, midsummer, oftentimes, ornament, pad, padded, riddled, shrub, shrubs
«I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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Almighty, convenient, cousin, distemper, distempered, distempers, equals, grandmother, incurable, nurse, ornament, scarce, superiors, sweetheart, sweethearts, wealthy, wealthy man, wet nurse
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