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«Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronized, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand.»
Author: Anthony Powell
(Writer)
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«When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier.»
«It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
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«He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
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«Your dexterity seems a happy compound of the smartness of an attorney's clerk and the intrigue of a Greek of the lower empire.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
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clerk, dexterity, intrigue, smartness
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