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«Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.»
«If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Adulthood,
Teenage
| Keywords:
adult, fat, in other words, spoil
«Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But, if men be bad, let the government be ever so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn.»
Author: William Penn
(Founder)
| Keywords:
clocks, cure, depend, depend upon, endeavor, ever so, governments, ill, motion, moved, ruined, spoil, the government, warp, warped, warping, wherefore
«For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.»
«But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Samaria even unto Bethhoron, and smote three thousand of them, and took much spoil.»
«How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty»
«Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.»
«Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband's mood.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
breed, charms, childbearing, cloud, damaged, damages, damaging, darken, darkening, darkens, events, figure, hanging, husband, mood, pregnancies, spoil, uncertainties, uncertainty, wither, withering
«Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.»
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