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«The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
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«The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.»
«I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.»
Author: William S. Gilbert
(Lyricist)
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ancestry, atomic, consequently, globule, My Family, primordial, sneered, sneering, sneers, trace
«My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.»
«Neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us»
«The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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«A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.»
«Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer»
Author: Lord Byron
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«A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.»
«The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer»
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