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Letter "R" » rot
«Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run»
«He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with him, a scabrous spot of rot, of contagion, for which there was no cure.»
«Bob Scarpelli [of DDB] has told me I'd rot in hell for the commercials I've done, but I think he's kidding.»
«As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.»
«I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.»
«Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
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fixed, nutrition, peculiar, propagate, propagated, propagates, propagating, rot, spot
«Fame is rot; daughters are the thing»
«And when they list, their lean and flashy songs / Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw, / The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, / But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, / Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread.»
«It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.»
«'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale»
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