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«Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.»
Author: Francois Fenelon
| About:
Children
| Keywords:
defects, excellent, General will, govern, in general, observers, perceive, slightest, The Observer
«Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.»
«If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludic»
Author: Marie Louise De La Ramee
| Keywords:
aesthetic, cycling, extinguished, locomotion, slightest
«But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power?they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.»
«And in a chair well-knownMy mother sat, and did not tireWith reading all alone.If I should make the slightest soundTo show that I'm awake,She'd rise, and lap the blankets round,My pillow softly shake;Kiss me, and turn my face to seeThe shadows on the wall,And then sing Rousseau's Dream to me,Till fast asleep I fall.»
Author: William Allingham
(Man of letter, Poet)
| Keywords:
blankets, chair, fast asleep, lap, pillow, Rousseau, slightest, softly, sound asleep, The Shadows, The Wall, tire, well known
«He, who controls his senses and 'sacrifices' himself in the 'fire of knowledge' does not have the slightest of trepidation and fear. »
«For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| About:
Confidence,
Presidency,
Women
| Keywords:
for instance, fulfill, functions, instance, slightest
«Each well-born soul must win what it deserves.Let the fool prate of luck. The fortunateIs he whose earnest purpose never swerves,Whose slightest action or inaction servesThe one great aim.»
«Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather»
«He that suffers the slightest breach in his morality can seldom tell what shall enter it, or how wide it shall be made; when a passage is open, the influx of corruption is every moment wearing down opposition, and by slow degrees deluges the heart»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
breach, corruption, degrees, deluge, deluges, influx, passage, slightest, The Deluge, wear down
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