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«What shocked me most was that I could no longer touch him - the swiftness of this loss was like falling off a cliff»
«We were raised with the idea that we had limitless chances and we got very shocked to learn that wasn't the case.»
«When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.»
«We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things and yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy for us»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
defile, defiles, inconsistencies, inconsistency, list, List of, pale, reverence, reverences, shocked, the pale
«We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor,»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Crime
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artifice, artifices, crimes, deceit, distinctions, endear, endeared, endearing, endears, gradual, of our own, palliate, palliated, palliating, self-deceit, shocked, wickedness
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