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gross
«The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.»
Author: John Muir
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
civilization, destroyed, gross, grossed, grosser, grossest, gross out, heathenism
«There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.»
«People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.»
Author: Stephen King
(Writer)
| Keywords:
desk, desks, gross, grossed, grosser, grossest, gross out, jar, jarring, jars, small stuff, stuff, writing desk
«The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| Keywords:
fraud, glibly, greedily, gross, impostor, impostors, imprudence
«The same vices that are gross and insupportable in others we do not notice in ourselves»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
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gross
«So our Lord God commonly gives riches to those gross asses to whom He vouchsafes nothing else»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| Keywords:
asses, commonly, gross, grossed, grosser, grossest, gross out, Lord's table, riches, vouchsafe, vouchsafed, vouchsafes
«Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
absurdity, gross, public opinion, scarcely
«One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we have seen what priestcraft and fanaticism can do, and credulity believe»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
absurdities, credit, credulity, fanaticism, gross, grossed, grosser, grossest, gross out, loaded, obtained, priestcraft, scripture, vulgar
