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«The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even / if you will / eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.»
Author: Joseph Brodsky
(Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.»
«We could probably win more often if we were willing to deploy seasoned personnel and equip them with sufficient carrots and sticks.»
«Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
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Truth
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«People can be induced to swallow anything, provide it is sufficiently seasoned with praise»
Author: Moliere
(Actor, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? / It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.»
«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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«Oh, better, no doubt, is a dinner of herbs, When seasoned by love, which no rancor disturbs, And sweetened by all that is sweetest in life, Than turbot, bisque, ortolans, eaten with strife»
«A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in w»
«Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.»
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