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«Somewhere in the brain of every prima donna there is a deep craving for security and comfort, linked with a fear of old age. This causes her to pick a man who is prepared to act as a permanent wet nurse.»
Author: Andre Mertens
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craving, donna, donnas, linked, nurse, Prima, prima donna, prima donnas, wet nurse
«Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.»
«MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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bottle, enlightened, females, Mammalia, nurse, state of nature, suckle, suckled, suckling, vertebrate, vertebrates
«RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.Sharp, irresistible by mail or shield, By guard unparried as by flight unstayed, O serviceable Rumor, let me wield Against my enemy no other blade. His be the terror of a foe unseen, His the inutile hand upon the hilt, And mine the deadly tongue, long, slender, keen, Hinting a rumor of some ancient guilt. So shall I slay the wretch without a blow, Spare me to celebrate his overthrow, And nurse my valor for another foe. --Joel Buxter»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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assassins, blade, celebrate, deadly, flight, hilt, hinted, hinting, hints, inutile, irresistible, Joel, keen, mail, nurse, overthrow, rumor, serviceable, shield, slay, slender, spare, The Assassin, The Assassins, the Terror, unseen, valor, wield, wielded, wields, wretch, wretches
«Nurse, O my love is slain, I saw him go / O'er the white Alps alone.»
«Let simple Wordsworth chime his childish verse, / And brother Coleridge lull the babe at nurse.»
«Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us -- but not suckle us.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
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dry nurse, nurse, suckle, suckled, suckling
«O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness?»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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forgetfulness, frightened, lids, nurse, steep, steeped, steeps, weigh, weighed down, wilt
«O comfort-killing night, image of hell, dim register and notary of shame, black stage for tragedies and murders fell, vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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concealing, dim, murders, notaries, notary, nurse, register, registered, registering, registers, The Register, tragedies
«Our foster-nurse of nature is repose»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Nature
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Foster, nurse, repose
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