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«Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase»
Author: John Balguy
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Contentment
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contentment, expense, pearl, Pearl of Great Price, procured, procures, procuring, purchase, ten thousand
«A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away--the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us--is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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affliction, bestow, coldly, deserted, purchase, purchasing power, staying power, sympathy
«And I charged Baruch before them, saying, / Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many days.»
«For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.»
«Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
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Books
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appropriation, appropriations, buying, contents, mistaken, purchase, rule book, The Purchase
«DOG, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. This Divine Being in some of his smaller and silkier incarnations takes, in the affection of Woman, the place to which there is no human male aspirant. The Dog is a survival --an anachronism. He toils not, neither does he spin, yet Solomon in all his glory never lay upon a door-mat all day long, sun-soaked and fly-fed and fat, while his master worked for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.»
«Experts agree that the best type of computer for your individual needs is one that comes on the market about two days after you actually purchase some other computer.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Computers
| Keywords:
actually, agree, computer, experts, like an expert, market, marketed, purchase, purchases, purchasing, some other, the market, The Purchase, type
«American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
American, consumers, fat, floor, floor wax, including, No problem, product, purchase, purchases, purchasing, The Purchase, wax, waxes, waxing
«Consumed by desire, they have no understanding at all. They purchase poison, and they are thirsty with their fascination for poison. Telling lies, they eat poison.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
| Keywords:
purchase
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