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«He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with him, a scabrous spot of rot, of contagion, for which there was no cure.»
«[They are] social pariahs, irrationally ostracized by their communities because of medically baseless fears of contagion.»
«As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust»
«He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death»
«Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
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Truth
| Keywords:
assimilate, assimilated, assimilating, communicated, contagion
«And when they list, their lean and flashy songs / Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw, / The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, / But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, / Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread.»
«A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement -- in a word, with more renunciation than you care for -- and so you flee the contagion.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
abnegation, addicted, advancement, associate, contagion, excessive, infect, infected, joints, self-abnegation, stiffen, stiffened, stiffening
«'Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
breathes, breathing time, churchyards, contagion, night time, The Witches, Tis, witching, yawn, yawning, yawns
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