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«I was never unusually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it was necessary»

Author: Henry David Thoreau (Essayist, Philosopher, Poet) | Keywords: fried, fries, fry, rat, relish, relished, relishes, relishing, squeamish, unusually

«Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all?s fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he?s no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he?s neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach?d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and tho? you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men?s lives, which he guggles down like mother?s milk.»

Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | Keywords: belly, chewing, clown, confounded, corn, crammed, crams, cuts, dropsy, eats, fair hearing, foul, green corn, Green Grass, guggle, lamb, maw, mower, mowers, net, noon, parson, Parsons, ripe, squeamish, stakes, swallows, sweeps, Tho, throws, ungracious

«Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.»

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | Keywords: experiment, squeamish, timid

«Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.»

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: Action, Experience | Keywords: Actions, squeamish, timid

«There are three whose lives are lacking: the over-compassionate, the hot-tempered, and the too-squeamish»

Author: The Talmud | Keywords: compassionate, hot-tempered, lacking, squeamish

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