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«The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.»
Author: Jacques Barzun
(Educator)
| Keywords:
bourgeois, devices, drawing, drawing room, entertainment, furniture, Grown up, instrument of torture, massive, par, par excellence, piano, The Piano, The Social
«Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has grown up looking at the world through a lens.»
«Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death»
«We've had bad luck with children; they've all grown up»
Author: Christopher Morley
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Children,
Growing up,
Growth,
Luck
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bad luck, Grown up
«There's no doubt about it, show business lures the people who didn't get enough love, attention, or approval early in life and have grown up to become bottomless, gaping vessels of terrifying, abject need. Please laugh.»
Author: Dennis Miller
(Actor, Comedian)
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abject, approval, bottomless, gape, gaped, gapes, gaping, Grown up, lures, no doubt, show business, terrifying, Vessels
«One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.»
«Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.»
Author: Bible
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blasted, confounded, corn field, dismayed, green corn, Green Grass, Grown up, herb, housetop, housetops
«Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood: / That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace: / That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets: / That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.»
Author: Bible
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affording, be full, bring forth, complaining, daughters, deliver, Deliver Me, garner, garnering, garners, Grown up, hand to mouth, labour, oxen, palace, plants, polished, right-handed, right hand, similitude, street corner
«Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.»
«What the young one begs for, the grown-up throws away»
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