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«Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable.»
Author: A. P. Herbert
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«The history of society, like the lives of men, is subject to ups and downs rendered easier to bear by dreams of a better future, as Marxist critics have vigorously asserted in their criticism of the traditional religions, overlooking the fact that Ma»
Author: Jacques Givet
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asserted, Marxist, Marxists, overlooking, rendered, The Downs, traditional, vigorously
«Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals - Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want»
«All in the Downs the fleet was moored, / The streamers waving in the wind, / When black-eyed Susan came aboard.»
«Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.»
Author: Thomas More
(Chancellor, Humanist, Statesman)
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family history, Histories, minor, The Downs
«So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
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Africa, elephants, gaps, geographer, geographers, maps, savage, The Downs, towns, uninhabitable
«Human life is beset with ups and downs, joys and sorrows. These experiences are intended to serve as guideposts for man.»
«People should remain unaffected by what others may say. A true man is one who overcomes the ups and downs of life with fortitude. One should not recoil before reverses of fortunes. One should bravely face them and overcome them.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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bravely, recoil, recoils, reverses, The Downs
«Real Peace of mind has no ups and downs; it cannot be partial in adversity and whole in prosperity.»
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