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«Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.»
Author: Desiderius Erasmus (Editor, Humanist, Priest) | Keywords: gloss, glosses, in the same breath, piling, relevant, self-satisfied, Sisyphus, six hundred, string
«Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.»
Author: Walter Benjamin (Essayist, Theologian, Writer) | Keywords: gloss, glosses, invisibly, prophetically, rays, text, The Book of Life, ultraviolet
«To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice -- and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche (Critic, Philosopher, Scholar) | Keywords: gentleness, gloss, glosses, nobility, self-sacrifice, swallow, win over
«Why should I set so fine a gloss on things?»
Author: Robert Browning (Poet) | Keywords: gloss, glosses
«One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.»
Author: William Orville Douglas | Keywords: adore, amendment, gloss, glosses, protest
«Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere 'Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none.»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: ceremony, devised, faint, First to, gloss, glosses, hollow, recant, recanting, shown, welcomes
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