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«If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.»
«Do not carry a spirit of contradiction, for it is to be freighted with stupidity and with peevishness, and your intelligence should plot against it; though it may well be the mark of mental genius to see objection, a wrangler about everything cannot»
Author: Baltasar Gracian
(Philosopher, Writer)
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contradiction, freighted, objection, peevishness, plot, The Mark of, wrangler
«Let no man rashly determine, that his unwillingness to be pleased is a proof of understanding, unless his superiority appears from less doubtful evidence; for though peevishness may sometimes justly boast its descent from learning or from wit, it is»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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doubtful, peevishness, rashly, unwillingness
«Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
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Action The, asleep, peevishness, repair, repair to, waste paper
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