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Letter "P" » provision
«Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
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divides, Loafer, loafers, no Time, provision, workers
«In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.»
«And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king.»
«But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.»
«And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai, / They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up; / And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.»
Author: Bible
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ambassadors, bottles, bound up, garments, Gibeon, Inhabitants, Jericho, Joshua, mouldy, provision, rent, sacked, sacks, wine bottle
«Education is the best provision for old age.»
«How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible tugs, until his consciousness has drifted out of its untenable earthly harbor into the great sea beyond!»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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drifted, earthly, harbor, imperceptible, loosen, loosened, loosening, loosens, provision, the Great Sea, tugging, tugs, untenable
«And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal, / Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.»
Author: Bible
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fowl, harts, One Fine Day, pastures, provision, roebuck, roebucks, threescore
«Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction»
«A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.»
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