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«Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open»
«I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.»
«I've had this sneaking feeling throughout the game that it's there to be won...»
«If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party»
Author: Dag Hammarskjold
(Statesman)
| About:
Death and dying,
Social service
| Keywords:
sneaking, sneaks, sneak out, sneak up, social function, The Party, tiptoe, tiptoed
«My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!»
Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
(Orator, Playwright, Politician)
| Keywords:
ooze, oozed, oozes, oozing, palms, sneaking, valor
«A true great Man will neither trample on a Worm, nor sneak to an Emperor.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
sneak, sneaking
«LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper. In his character of editor he is closely allied to the blackmailer by the tie of occasional identity; for in truth the lickspittle is only the blackmailer under another aspect, although the latter is frequently found as an independent species. Lickspittling is more detestable than blackmailing, precisely as the business of a confidence man is more detestable than that of a highway robber; and the parallel maintains itself throughout, for whereas few robbers will cheat, every sneak will plunder if he dare.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
blackmail, blackmailed, blackmailer, confidence man, detestable, functionaries, functionary, highway, infrequently, in truth, maintains, occasional, parallel, plunder, sneak, sneaking, Truth The
«In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
agents, brawler, brawlers, declamation, declamations, Devotees, dint, first water, Forces of Evil, insight, intrude, intrudes, intrude into, intrude on, intruding, preserving, repeating, revolutionist, revolutionists, revolutions, shaken, sheer, sneaking, sneaks, sneak out, sneak up, stamp, stereotype, stereotyped, stereotyping, survivors, The First Evil, tradition, unavoidable
«?Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o?er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.»
«A petty sneaking thief I knew - / O! Mr Cr-, how do you do?»
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