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«Such is the delicacy of man alone, that no object is produced to his liking. He finds that in everything there is need for improvement.... The whole industry of human life is employed not in procuring the supply of our three humble necessities, food, clothes and lodging, but in procuring the conveniences of it according to the nicety and delicacy of our tastes.»
Author: Adam Smith
| Keywords:
conveniences, delicacies, delicacy, employed, food supply, improvement, liking, lodges, lodging, lodgings, necessities, niceties, nicety, procured, procures, procuring, supply, tastes
«Every piece of writing... starts from what I call a grit... a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away... but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind.»
Author: Rumer Godden
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
grit, grits, gritted, gritting, happening, lodges, lodging, of sound mind, pass away, piece of writing, Sight and Sound
«One way to find your place is likethe rain, a million requestsfor lodging, one that wins, findsyour cheek: you find your home.»
«Soul of the Age! / The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! / My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by / Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie / A little further, to make thee a room; / Thou art a monument without a tomb.»
«The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Government,
Power
| Keywords:
abuse, abuse of power, liable, lodged, lodges, lodging
«Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
adventures, an episode, at parties, episode, episodes, lodged, lodges, lodging, lump, lumped, lumps, obscure, standardized, Thirty two, Thirty Years, whatsoever
«Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: / Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.»
«Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.»
«In the south suburbs, at the Elephant,Is best to lodge.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
elephant, in the south, lodge, lodges, lodging, South, suburb, suburbs, The Elephant, the South
«O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
| Keywords:
boundless, contiguity, lodge, lodges, lodge in, lodging, rumour, shade, unsuccessful, wilderness
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