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«It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.»
Author: Angela Carter
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
blameless, intercourse, plague, sexual intercourse, the plague
«A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal»
Author: Daniel Berrigan
| About:
Revolution
| Keywords:
avoids, plague, Plague The, promised, the plague
«I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.»
Author: Russell Crowe
(Actor)
| About:
Country
| Keywords:
Africa, Angeles, bubonic, bubonic plague, Continent, disappeared, plague, swallowed, the continent, tidal, tidal wave, wave, Zealand
«Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.»
Author: William Safire
(Grammarian, Writer)
| Keywords:
cliches, last but not least, plague, the plague
«My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.»
«Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine.»
Author: Sean O'Casey
(Playwright)
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apostles, cleanliness, cunning man, Curie, deliverance, enlightenment, famine, Faraday, godliness, nightingale, nightingales, Pasteur, pestilence, plague, quell, quelled, Rutherford, screaming, symbolic, the Enlightenment, willful, woebegone
«Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
gout, plague, sloth
«HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.Lo! the poor humorist, whose tortured mind See jokes in crowds, though still to gloom inclined -- Whose simple appetite, untaught to stray, His brains, renewed by night, consumes by day. He thinks, admitted to an equal sty, A graceful hog would bear his company. --Alexander Poke»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
austerity, consumes, crowds, gloom, his company, hoar, hog, humorists, persuaded, plague, poking, renewed, softened, stray, the humorist, untaught
«In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
chemistry, famine, machinery, outdo, outdoes, outdone, pestilence, plague, slaughter
«My first wish is to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements and exercising them for the destruction of mankind»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
amusements, banished, daughters, employed, exercising, implemented, implementing, implements, my first, plague, pleasing, preparing, Sons and Daughters
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