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«An essayist is a lucky person who has found a way to discourse without being interrupted»
Author: Charles Poore
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discourse, discourses, discoursing, essayist, essayists, interrupted, interrupting, interrupts, lucky, The Discourses
«Distanced from the work by crowds and railings, they may listen on their Acoustiguides to the plummy vowels of the Met's director, Philippe de Montebello, discoursing like an undertaker on the merits of the deceased.»
Author: Robert Hughes
(Author, Critic)
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crowds, deceased, director, discoursing, distanced, merits, Philippe, plummy, railings, The Met, The Undertaker, undertakers, vowel, vowels
«I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
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«Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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clear, discourse, discourses, discoursing, meditation, meditations, profound, reading, The Discourses
«And again, Subhuti, suppose a woman or a man were to renounce all their belongings as many times as there are grains of sand in the river Ganges ; and suppose that someone else, after taking from this discourse on dharma but one stanza of four lines,»
Author: Buddha
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«Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
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Literature
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«Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Silence
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balm, chagrin, disappointment, discourses, discoursing, dull, refuge, satiety, sequel, The Discourses, universal, welcome
«Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Men
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discourse, discourses, discoursing, gentleness, good shape, liberality, salt, season, spice, spiced, The Discourses
«All these woes shall serveFor sweet discourses in our time to come.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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discourses, discoursing, In Our Time, The Discourses, time to come, woes
«A kindOf excellent dumb discourse.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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discourse, discourses, discoursing, dumb, The Discourses
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