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«All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one is not careful, those slimy warthogs can ruin it for all the others.»
«If you find a perfect church, don't join it; you'll ruin it»
«Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind»
Author: John Tillotson
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Ignorance
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causes, ignorance, inconsideration, mankind, ruin, ruining
«Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.»
«In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.»
Author: Denis Diderot
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advancement, advancements, affluence, be well, conceal, corruption, display, efforts, exceed, fortunes, Gods Themselves, imaginable, Inhabitants, mask, national, number the, ostentation, outward, ruin, small fortune, small number, The Gods Themselves, The Mask, The National, twinkling, vain, vanish, vice
«Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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breeds, delay, design, protract, protracted, protracting, protracts, ruin
«A kiss may ruin a human life.»
«Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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crying, plain, Pretty Woman, refuge, ruin
«In peace prepare for war, in war prepare for peace. The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence under no circumstances can it be neglected.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
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Military,
Peace,
War
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Art of War, hence, neglected, prepare for, ruin, safety, state of war, The Art of War, vital
«A dog starved at his master's gate, Predicts the ruin of the state»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
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At The Gates, gate, master, predicting, Predicts, ruin, starved, starves, The State
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