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«What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
(Writer)
| Keywords:
missed, mortified, mortifies, mortify, mortifying, plum, plums, shake
«Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.»
«I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.»
«There's a real love of a lie, / Liars find ready-made for lies they make, / As hand for glove, or tongue for sugar-plum.»
«All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life.»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
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class feeling, driest, inspires, nausea, plum, plums
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