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«I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
advantageous, blooded, brilliant, comparison, drunkards, fall into, habitual, proneness, warm-blooded
«I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class»
«DISABUSE, v.t. The present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed it advantageous to embrace.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
advantageous, deemed, disabuse, disabused
«It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
advantageous, praised, shuttlecock, struck
«To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
War
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abolish, abolishes, abolishing, advantageous, branches, establish, lucrative, mode, nations
«Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
advantageous, in writing
«An excess of modesty is in fact an excess of pride, and more hurtful to the individual, and less advantageous to society, than the grossest and most unblushing vanity.»
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