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«I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.»
Author: Aneurin Bevan (Politician) | Keywords: calculating, calculating machine, desiccated, desiccates, labour, Labour Party, political leader, political machine, the Labour Party
«Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It is not due to trade but to intensity of self-seeking, combined with narrowness of occupation. Business has destroyed the very knowledge in us of all other natural forces except business.»
Author: John Jay Chapman | Keywords: combined, desiccated, desiccates, dried, flatten, flattened, flattening, flattens, intensity, narrowness, not due, occupation, self-seeking
«PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. The wisdom of a million fools in the diction of a dullard. A fossil sentiment in artificial rock. A moral without the fable. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A demi-tasse of milk-and-mortality. The Pope's-nose of a featherless peacock. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. The cackle surviving the egg. A desiccated epigram.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: cackle, cackles, cackling, desiccated, desiccates, diction, dullard, dullards, epigram, fable, featherless, fossil, fossils, jellies, mortality, snore, snores, snoring, surviving, tasse, the pope, withering
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