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«Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.»
«The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.»
Author: Red Auerbach
| About:
Business
| Keywords:
brilliancy, commercial, deeming, frivolous, mistrusted, unprofitable
«Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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amuse, amuses, ball, billiard, billiards, frivolous, hitting, hit man, playing, reasons, such as, sufficient, thus, weariness, weary, wretched
«We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
defects, frivolous, incurables, perverse
«When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.»
«To the frivolous, Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
first of all, frivolous, glad, serious, tidings, wishes
«The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
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bends, calamities, elasticity, escapes, frivolous, loftier, oak, presence of mind, recover, resists, tempest, tempests, The Tempest, The Willows, willow, willows
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