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«It sometimes happens, even in the best of families, that a baby is born. This is not necessarily cause for alarm. The important thing is to keep your wits about you and borrow some money.»
Author: Elinor Smith
| About:
Family,
Money
| Keywords:
alarmed, baby, borrow, Cause for Alarm, families, necessarily, The Alarm, wits
«He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose»
«If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. . . . The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.»
«Have you summoned your wits from woolgathering?»
«It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.»
Author: Neil Gaiman
(Children's author, Comics writer, Journalist, Novelist, Screenwriter)
| About:
Clothes
| Keywords:
emperor, half-wit, point out, prerogative, prerogatives, The Emperor, wits
«He is crazed with the spell of far Arabia, / They have stolen his wits away.»
«Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.»
Author: Walter Savage Landor
(Writer)
| Keywords:
animosities, animosity, contest, perspicacity, sharpen, strengthen, wits
«Great wits jump (says the Poet) and hit his Head against the Post»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
wits
«In our last conflict four of his five wits went halting off, and now is the whole man govern'd with one.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
conflict, govern, halted, halting, halts, The Whole Man, wits
«Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.»
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