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«Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.»
«Those colorful denizens of male despair, the Bowery bum and the rail-riding hobo, have been replaced by the bag lady and the welfare mother. Women have even taken over Skid Row.»
Author: Florence King
| Keywords:
bag lady, Bowery, colorful, denizen, denizens, hobo, rail, riding, skid, skidding, skids, skid row, taken over, The Bowery
«Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.»
Author: Henry Fielding
(Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Envy,
Relationships
| Keywords:
rail, railed, rails
«You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.»
Author: Margaret Thatcher
(Politician, Prime Minister)
| About:
Travel
| Keywords:
come by, economists, infrastructure, rail, railed, rails
«Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
flow from, intermission, intermissions, rail
«A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool; a miserable world: As I do live by food, I met a fool: Who laid him down and bask'd him in the sun, And rail'd on lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms, - and yet a motley fool»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
bask, basked, basking, motley, rail, rails
«For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o?clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it's all in the balance, it hasn't happened yet, it hasn't even begun yet, it not only hasn't begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it's going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn't need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose and all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago.... William Faulkner, Intruder In The Dust»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
afternoon, all in, begun, break even, break out, brigade, cast, crown, desperate, dome, domes, dust, Faulkner, fence, fence rail, flags, fourteen, furled, gamble, gambled, gambles, grave, guns, hat, hill, instant, intruder, July, July 4, laid, laying on of hands, loosen, loosened, loosening, loosens, not yet, oiled, old boy, Old Boys, old hand, on that, Pennsylvania, Pickett, rail, railed, rails, rail fence, southern, stake, the Hill, two-year, unbelievable, Washington, William Faulkner, woods
«In my time I have seen truth that was anything under the sun but just, and I have seen justice using tools and instruments I wouldn't want to touch with a 10-foot fence rail.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
fence, fence rail, instruments, rail, railed, rails, rail fence
«If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they will --the very names of these despised qualities are better than anything else that could be substituted for them, and embalm even the most envenomed satire against them.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
despised, embalm, embalming, embalms, for instance, instance, rail, satire, substituted
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