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«It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.»
«I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.»
«And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see -- or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.»
Author: Alice Walker
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anonymously, grandmothers, handed, hoped, letter, more often than not, mothers, plainly, sealed, sealing, seals, spark
«Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.»
«I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me»
«For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.»
«A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, in science, but she fears to let the perfect action take her part and rest there: she must prove what she can do before she does it, / prate of woman's rights, of woman's mission, woman's function, till the men (who are prating, too, on their side) cry, ''A woman's function plainly is... to talk'.' Poor souls, they are very reasonably vexed!»
«For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.»
«In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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Humanity,
World
| Keywords:
antechamber, diminish, division, in darkness, plainly
«An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Honesty
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plainly, speeds
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