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«As accidental as my life may be, or as that random humor is, which governs it, I know nothing, after all, so real or substantial as myself»
«Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee»
«In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing»
Author: Thorstein Veblen
(Economist)
| Keywords:
fencing, law school, Modern School, School of, substantial
«Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.»
Author: Charles Lamb
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
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Gifts
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engage, knack, substantial, The Knack
«George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.»
Author: Jesse Jackson
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader, Politician)
| Keywords:
George Bush, heads of state, head of state, substantial
«On a day of burial there is no perspective -- for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was -- to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
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«INFLUENCE, n. In politics, a visionary _quo_ given in exchange for a substantial _quid_.»
«LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system --an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult males. The male of our species has a rudimentary lap, imperfectly developed and in no way contributing to the animal's substantial welfare.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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admirable, adult male, chiefly, contributing, imperfectly, infancy, in no way, lap, organs, plates, provision, repose, rudimentary, rural, substantial, support system, The Animal
«For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
occupy, real life, shadowy, substantial
«Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,Are a substantial world, both pure and good:Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,Our pastime and our happiness will grow.»
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