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«Respect is love in plain clothes.»
«The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain»
Author: George McGovern
(Politician)
| About:
Patriotism
| Keywords:
acceptance, official, One Country, patriotism, plain, policy
«Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.»
«There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| About:
Art,
Language
| Keywords:
acquire, brief, For some, in brief, observation, plain, plain language, record
«Only the really plain people know about love-the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.»
Author: Katharine Hepburn
| Keywords:
exhaust, fascinate, fascinates, fascinating, impression, plain, Plain People, talents
«The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
breath, common good, duties, grasp, hand and foot, In Your Eyes, nearest, nostril, nostrils, plain, The Path
«No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
Great Plains, intelligence, masse, masses, office, plain, Plain People, public, public office, thereby, underestimating
«Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.»
«Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.»
Author: Katharine Hepburn
| Keywords:
plain
«Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.»
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