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«If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.»
«May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night and a smooth road all the way to your door.»
«Society is like a lawn where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
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Society
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bramble, brambles, delighted, eradicated, eradicating, lawn, roughness, smiling, smoothed, velvet, velvets, verdure
«Man hath no part in all this glorious work:The hand that built the firmament hath heavedAnd smoothed these verdant swells, and sown their slopesWith herbage. . . .»
«Society is smoothed to that excess, that manners hardly differ more than dress»
«Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.»
«An ivory-faced and silvery-haired old woman opened the door. She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.»
«Smooth hands love the labor of others.»
«Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he k»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
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builds, encumber, encumbered, encumbering, encumbers, enrich, fitted, materials, rude, smoothed, squared
«Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich.»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
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builds, encumber, encumbered, encumbering, encumbers, fitted, materials, smoothed, squared, unprofitable
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