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«Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.»
«The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.»
«MEEKNESS, n. Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.M is for Moses, Who slew the Egyptian. As sweet as a rose is The meekness of Moses. No monument shows his Post-mortem inscription, But M is for Moses Who slew the Egyptian. --_The Biographical Alphabet_»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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biographical, Egyptian, inscriptions, m, meekness, uncommon
«LONGEVITY, n. Uncommon extension of the fear of death.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Longevity
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extension, longevity, uncommon
«Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
meekness, planning, revenge, uncommon
«People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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abilities, adequate, adequate to, Eccentricities, eccentricity, fall into, People of, sphere, uncommon
«I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one; Of such as these I should not care to vaunt, I'll therefore take our ancient frien»
«That household virtue, most uncommon, / Of constancy to a bad, ugly woman.»
«It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.»
«Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books»
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