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society disease want
Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. Charles Caleb Colton
society
'Unbroken' was published as a help to society. Louis Zamperini
society
We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we? Laura Wade
society might ornaments
He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society. Charles Lamb
society facts hints
Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on. John Roberts
society firsts fit
Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system. Brian Aldiss
society able wonder
I wonder if, as a society, we will ever be able to call someone a jive tofurkey. Demetri Martin
society used states
Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation. Edith Wharton
society fundamentals groups
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State. Eleanor Roosevelt
might occupation certain
To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings. Carl Friedrich Gauss
might majesty wild-geese
No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here. C. S. Lewis
might next shock time
What the shock might be next time is unpredictable. Richard DeKaser
might narnia chechnya
Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia. Aasif Mandvi
might
We were already down two there. If we were tied, we might have done something differently. John Gibbons
might goes-on wells
We might as well die as to go on living like this. Charlie Chaplin
might potatoes
What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be! Charles Dudley Warner
might stairs lorry
Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord. Charles Dickens
might use disaster
But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny... Charles Stuart Calverley
ornaments chastity chaste
Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste. William Shakespeare
ornaments shame young
Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old. Aristotle
ornaments modesty maximum
He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.] Marcus Tullius Cicero
ornaments oratory
An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory. Oscar Wilde
ornaments grit pearls
I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament. Evelyn Waugh
ornaments weakness shows
The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
ornaments modesty
Ornaments were invented by modesty. Joseph Joubert
ornaments monstrosity certain
...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments. Jean Genet
ornaments realization matter
True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented Frank Lloyd Wright