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«It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking; if your own tongue must praise you»
«A small leak can sink a great ship»
«..fiery yearnings their own phantom-futures make, and deem it present. So, after all these fearful, fainting trances, the verdict be, the golden haven was not gained - - yet, in bold quest thereof, better to sink in boundless deeps, than float on vulgar shoals; and give me, ye gods, an utter wreck, if wreck I do.»
«Listen, lad. I built this kingdom up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was swamp. Other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one... stayed up! And that's what you're gonna get, lad: the strongest castle in these islands.»
«I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.»
«Beware of the little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.»
«Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons»
«All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.»
«He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Manners,
Violence
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gulf, Gulf of, obscurity, precipice, precipices, predecessors, pushing, push away, sink, sink in, swept, Swept Away
«Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.»
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