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«These are the beautiful people, who, befitting their rank as gods and goddesses of a powerful modern mythology, lead beautiful lives in beautiful houses, attired in beautiful clothes and, ostensibly, thinking only beautiful thoughts.»
Author: Helen Lawrenson
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attired, befit, befits, befitting, goddesses, gods and goddesses, mythology, ostensibly, rank
«Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit»
Author: Herbert Spencer
(Philosopher)
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Music
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arts, fine art, fine arts, ministers, rank, rankest
«No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.»
«Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.»
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
(Editor, Humanist, Priest)
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Reflection
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fragrance, rank, revelry, wholesome
«Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.»
Author: Peter F. Drucker
(Educator, Writer)
| Keywords:
confer, conferring, confer with, imposes, privilege, rank, rankest
«It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
divest, divested, rank, relative, retain
«I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence -this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.»
Author: Lord Byron
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affectation, affectations, by no means, earthquake, earthquakes, eruption, lava, prevents, rank, scale
«There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
authoritative, passionate, rank, revolutionary, stringent
«I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends; but I rank dividends below human character»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
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below, dividend, dividends, importance, rank, rankest, underestimating
«O! my offence is rank, it smells to heaven.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
offence, rank, ranked, rankest, ranking, smells
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