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«Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate»

Author: Colley Cibber (Actor, Playwright) | Keywords: cordial, insipidity, liquid, opening, prostrate, prostrated, prostrates, prostrating, sage, smoothing, sober, tipple, tippled, tippling, venerable, wink

«It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.»

Author: David Leavitt | About: World | Keywords: bumps, bump into, bump off, caramel, dangle, dangling, infinitive, infinitives, knots, mending, powered, sheen, smoothing, snip, snipping, snip off, split

«My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.»

Author: Mother Jones (Labor Organizer) | Keywords: diamond, smoothing

«If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.»

Author: Myrtle Reed | Keywords: feet, our own, paths, smooth, smoothed, smoother, smoothes, smoothest, smoothing, tried, walk-on, walk

«May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night and a smooth road all the way to your door.»

Author: Irish Blessings | About: Words | Keywords: all the way, cold, colder, coldest, colds, dark, door, evening, full, full moon, moon, moon on, road, smooth, smoothed, smoother, smoothes, smoothest, smoothing, warmer

«The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright - And this was very odd, because it was The middle of the night»

Author: Lewis Carroll (Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer) | Keywords: billowing, bright, middle, odd, odder, oddest, Odd and, sea, shining, smooth, smoothed, smoother, smoothes, smoothest, smoothing, The Night, The Sea, This Was

«The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.»

Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: brow, brows, dying, kiss, known, lips, Nor, pillow, pillows, pure, sick, sicker, sickest, sin, smoothed, smoothes, smoothing, The Brow, the Hand, The Kiss, touch

«Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.»

Author: Proverb | About: Adversity | Keywords: sailors, seas, skillful, smooth, smoothed, smoother, smoothes, smoothest, smoothing

«Smooth hands love the labor of others.»

Author: Russian Proverb | Keywords: labor, smooth, smoothed, smoother, smoothes, smoothest, smoothing

«They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.»

Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: Angel, course, devil, evil, familiar, familiars, No Angel, no show, run, show, smooth, smoothed, smoother, smoothes, smoothest, smoothing, True Love

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