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real giving gold
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility Charles Caleb Colton
real passion deceit
As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.
real deceit our-actions
The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
real evil lasts
There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.
real honest strategy
Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
reality drawing views
Falsehood, like a drawing in perspective, will not bear to be examined in every point of view, because it is a good imitation of truth, as a perspective is of the reality, only in one. But truth, like that reality of which the perspective is the representation, will bear to be scrutinized in all points of view, and though examined under every situation, is one and the same.
real character mean
Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give twenty thousand pounds for a good one, because he could immediately make double that sum by means of it.
real atmosphere gold
To be continually subject to the breath of slander, will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant exposure to the atmosphere will obscure the brightness of the finest gold; but in either case, the real value of both continues the same, although the currency may be somewhat impeded.
real home thinking
We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.
sarcasm gun thinking
The National Rifle Association says, 'Guns don't kill people. People do'. But I think the gun helps. Eddie Izzard
sarcasm magic trouble
If you're choking in a restaurant you can just say the magic words, 'Heimlich maneuver,' and all will be well. Trouble is, it's difficult to say 'Heimlich maneuver' when you're choking to death.
sarcasm chaos
Without sarcasm I sink into chaos. Antonin Artaud
sarcasm flattery form
Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery. Benjamin Franklin
sarcasm
I like sarcasm. I like snark. Alexis Ohanian
sarcasm one-thing i-can
I can do only one thing at a time, but I can avoid doing many things simultaneously. Ashleigh Brilliant
sarcasm past action
The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering!
sarcasm want brilliant
I want either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
sarcasm long enough
You have delighted us long enough. Jane Austen
dry superstitions belief
Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well. Charles Spurgeon
dry
We don't get ourselves dry cleaned. Barney Frank
dry actors going-to-work
Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again. Benjamin Walker
dry dishes blanket
Lucy was using my blanket to dry the dishes... We now have very secure dishes! Charles M. Schulz
dry turns unless
Unless it turns big-time downwind and the fairways dry out, no, you can't get there in two. Tiger Woods
dry gilded
A gilded No is more satisfactory than a dry Yes. Baltasar Gracian
dry last
we experienced a very dry mid-winter last year, and that is something we never anticipated. George Taylor
dry easier greens pins
The (placement of) pins are a lot easier on Thursday. And when the greens dry out, as they should this week, it's only going to get harder.
dry-up comfort population
I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular administrative system whose aim is to provide for the needs of the poor will breed more miseries than it can cure, will deprave the population that it wants to help and comfort, will dry up the sources of savings, will stop the accumulation of capital, will retard the development of trade, and will benumb human industry. Alexis de Tocqueville