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mean secret purpose
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation. Charles Caleb Colton
mean men light
Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling creature; standing on time, that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities, he sees nothing but impenetrable darkness on the one hand, and doubt, distrust, and conjecture, still more perplexing, on the other. Most gladly would he take an observation, as to whence he has come, or whither he is going; alas, he has not the means: his telescope is too dim, his compass too wavering, his plummet too short. Charles Caleb Colton
mean gossip secret
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. Charles Caleb Colton
mean advice asks
We ask advice but we mean approbation. Charles Caleb Colton
mean propriety disciple
Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them. Charles Caleb Colton
mean atheism knaves
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool. Charles Caleb Colton
mean men dresses
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat; and worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them,--for every one, sees how we dress, but none see how we live, except we choose to let them. But the truly great are, by universal suffrage, exempted from these trammels, an may live or dress as they please. Charles Caleb Colton
mean love-is effort
Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort. Charles Dickens
mean land consideration
The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence. Charles Sturt
guarantees-that two literature
A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match. Charles Dickens
guarantees-that uncharted-waters immigration
This bill [Immigration Reform and Control act of 1986] is a gamble, a riverboat gamble. There is no guarantee that employer sanctions will work or that amnesty will work. We are headed into uncharted waters. Charles Schumer
guarantees-that careers worry
Every time you worry that you could get trapped in some kind of work you don't care about, you're dealing with the problem of meaningfulness. I guarantee that in the back of your mind is the thought that somehow you have to make a contribution to something, be acknowledged, do something that matters-or you're just fooling around. Barbara Sher
guarantees-that guarantees want
Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future Aristotle
guarantees-that interesting skins
No matter how predictable, banal and listless the rest of my life might be, you can guarantee that there'll always be something interesting going on with my skin. David Nicholls
guarantees-that names giving
So it is fair enough that you are paying me what I ask for, because it is my name you are using to sell the film. If the producer gives me a guarantee that he will sell the film at a lower price to the distributors, fair enough, then I will charge less! Ajay Devgan
guarantees-that giving support
When you buy Fairtrade products you can guarantee that the farmers who have worked hard to grow them get a minimum price. Fairtrade is a way of giving regular support - and enjoying delicious high quality foods at the same time. Emma Thompson
guarantees-that presidential competing
Who can guarantee that he [Alexander Milinkevich, a Belarussian opposition presidential candidate] is the most promising candidate capable of competing with the incumbent president? Alexander Lukashenko
guarantees-that law people
The American people have a right to except that the rule of law will guarantee that even if we don't like the policy, that it's done properly. Darrell Issa
vocabulary disease opponents
In the vocabulary of certain radical theorists contradictions are given the status of some deadly disease to which their opponents alone can succumb. But contradictions are the very stuff of life. If there had been a little dash of contradiction among the Gadarene swine some of them might have been saved from drowning. Chinua Achebe
vocabulary matter building
Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using. David Crystal
vocabulary biting opinion
My opinion was that if hogs are biting you so often that you have to stop and make up a specific word for it, maybe lack of vocabulary is not your most pressing problem. Charles Frazier
vocabulary use cult
Cults use our vocabulary, but they don't use our dictionary. Charles R. Swindoll
vocabulary going-away trying
Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors. Dean Koontz
vocabulary language drawbacks
I find vocabulary to be a great drawback. Elizabeth Taylor
vocabulary entrepreneur taught
The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values. Edward Abbey
vocabulary
Humor is not far from my vocabulary. Edward Herrmann
vocabulary mortality hermes
Antiquity breached mortality with myths. Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates A cornice on the Third National Bank. Allen Tate