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«With fingers weary and worn, / With eyelids heavy and red, / A woman sat in unwomanly rags, / Plying her needle and thread - / Stitch! stitch! stitch!»
«Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood of those who press earnestly upon it.»
Author: Walter Savage Landor
(Writer)
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adamant, bad blood, blunted, blunts, breaking point, draw away, earnestly, finest, hard pressed, subtlest, wear away, worn
«When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.»
«Underwear should be worn on the inside»
«We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
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belongings, creatures, household, shoes, throw, thrown-away, throw away, wear away, worn
«To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
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adjective, adjectives, cluttered, Dead language, decorative, encroachment, encroachments, Greek, Greek word, Latin, lure, lured, lures, obscurity, phrases, reliable, struggling, vagueness, worn, worn out, writes
«The true joy of life [is] being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap heap ... being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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ailment, clod, feverish, Forces of Nature, Force of Nature, heap, heaped, heaping, heap up, life force, mighty, recognized, scrap, scraps, selfish, thoroughly, thrown, worn, worn out
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