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«The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(Judge, Jurist)
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bigot, bigots, contract, contracted, contracting, on it, pupil, shine, Shine On, The Eye
«The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.»
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
(Writer)
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«When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs. I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb's bleat.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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«The commercial world is very frequently put into confusion by the bankruptcy of merchants, that assumed the splendour of wealth only to obtain the privilege of trading with the stock of other men, and of contracting debts which nothing but lucky casu»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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