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«To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
acquisition, acquisitions, cradle, cradled, cradles, delight, fifteen, From the Cradle, plain
«To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy.»
Author: Thomas A. Buckner
| Keywords:
all-time, battle, continuously, Everything to Everyone, frame, frames, frame of mind, framing, hard time, I frame, plain, proper, proper time, require, won
«This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.»
«Yes. He saw her in his mind, exactly as she was. She bore him company with her pride, resentment, hatred, all as plain to him as her beauty; with nothing plainer to him than her hatred of him. He saw her sometimes haughty and repellent at his side, and some times down among his horse's feet, fallen and in the dust. But he always saw her as she was, without disguise, and watched her on the dangerous way that she was going.»
Author: Charles Dickens
| Keywords:
bear in mind, bore, disguise, dust, fallen, haughty, plain, plainer, repellent, resentment, side horse, watched
«The plain truth is that I am not a fair man, and don't want to hear both sides»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
both, fair, fairs, fair hearing, plain, plainer, plainest, sides, The Plain Truth
«We are a plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures.»
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
(Author, Writer)
| About:
Adventure
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adventures, folk, plain, quiet
«The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to someone else, if she is plain.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
behave, make love, plain, plainer, plainest, pretty, Pretty Woman, Someone else
«Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
imaginative, plain, plain language, purely, written language
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