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Letter "S" » show off
«Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.»
Author: Baltasar Gracian
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
discovers, displays, left over, novelties, novelty, show off, surprising
«I have prepared one of my own [timecapsules]. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.»
Author: Alfred Hitchcock
(Film Director)
| Keywords:
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«I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two races in the Southern states. The Negroes may long remain slaves without complaining; but if they are once raised to the level of freemen, they will soon revolt at being deprived of almost all their civil rights; and as they cannot become the equals of the whites, they will speedily show themselves as enemies.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
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«If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Courtesy,
Grace,
Relationships
| Keywords:
citizen, Continent, courteous, cutting off, cut off, gracious, island, joins, lands, show off, Strangers
«I like to show off when I'm on stage, but I don't like to show on, like, 'Come in and check it out. Look how rich I am.' That's not my style.»
«It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
information, Information the, More information, no show, off, private, privates, show, show off
«He would go to Halifax for half a chance to show off and he would go to hell for a whole one»
«I will not show off [written in Old English style font]»
«I like your silence, it the more shows off your wonder.»
«It is my will; the which if thou respect,Show a fair presence and put off these frowns.»
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