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«A blunderer is a man who starts a meat market during Lent»
«I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
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God
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Lent, realizing
«For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him: / Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshipped the LORD there.»
«And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD. And they went unto their own home.»
«And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: / And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.»
«Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.»
«HIBERNATE, v.i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various animals. Many believe that the bear hibernates during the whole winter and subsists by mechanically sucking its paws. It is admitted that it comes out of its retirement in the spring so lean that it had to try twice before it can cast a shadow. Three or four centuries ago, in England, no fact was better attested than that swallows passed the winter months in the mud at the bottom of their brooks, clinging together in globular masses. They have apparently been compelled to give up the custom and account of the foulness of the brooks. Sotus Ecobius discovered in Central Asia a whole nation of people who hibernate. By some investigators, the fasting of Lent is supposed to have been originally a modified form of hibernation, to which the Church gave a religious significance; but this view was strenuously opposed by that eminent authority, Bishop Kip, who did not wish any honors denied to the memory of the Founder of his family.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave.»
«He who wants Lent to seem short should contract a debt to be repaid at Easter»
«I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
circulate, circulated, circulates, circulating, circulating library, consist, counties, county, establishment, extensive, lending library, Lent, regulation, regulations, The Establishment, well-chosen
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