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literature civility
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. Charles Dickens
literature potatoes poultry
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
literature made should
I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
literature stealing plagiarism
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. Charles Caleb Colton
literature prudence
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
literature fool religious-bigotry
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
literature speech giants
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
literature action conflict
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
literature
We are so very 'umble.
ornaments shame young
Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old. Aristotle
ornaments chastity chaste
Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste. William Shakespeare
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
ornaments monstrosity certain
...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments. Jean Genet
ornaments modesty
Ornaments were invented by modesty. Joseph Joubert
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 mystery sin
The Cross isn't an ornament, mere symbol. It's the mystery of God's love, that He died for our sins. Pope Francis
ornaments oratory
An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory. Oscar Wilde
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
modesty virtue
Modesty is not one of my virtues. Alan King
modesty elegance highest
Modesty is the highest elegance Coco Chanel
modesty wore
She just wore Enough for modesty - no more Robert Buchanan
modesty sometimes virtue
Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty. David Halberstam
modesty time-passing excellent
Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.
modesty farming farmers
A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty. Bharati Mukherjee
modesty foul clearness
We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.
modesty
Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer. Edward Albee
modesty twins chastity
Modesty and chastity are twins Anna Jameson