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half a dozen
«Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.»
Author: Fritz Kreisler
(Composer, Violinist)
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Genius
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dozen, fairly, geniuses, half a dozen, half dozen, overused
«I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.»
Author: Joseph Priestley
(Chemist, Clergyman)
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Reading
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discovering, dozen, half a dozen, half dozen, important person, lifetimes
«I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.»
Author: Don Herold
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dozen, half a dozen, half dozen, phonograph, phonographs, scant, scanted, sixty, supplant, supplanted, supplanting, supplants
«Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver.»
Author: Dr. Laurence J. Peter
(Educator, Writer)
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awe, bus, bus driver, cage, dozen, driver, half a dozen, half dozen, in awe of, lions, school bus, tamer, tamers, tamest
«It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.»
«FREEDOM, n. Exemption from the stress of authority in a beggarly half dozen of restraint's infinite multitude of methods. A political condition that every nation supposes itself to enjoy in virtual monopoly. Liberty. The distinction between freedom and liberty is not accurately known; naturalists have never been able to find a living specimen of either.Freedom, as every schoolboy knows, Once shrieked as Kosciusko fell; On every wind, indeed, that blows I hear her yell.She screams whenever monarchs meet, And parliaments as well, To bind the chains about her feet And toll her knell.And when the sovereign people cast The votes they cannot spell, Upon the pestilential blast Her clamors swell.For all to whom the power's given To sway or to compel, Among themselves apportion Heaven And give her Hell. --Blary O'Gary»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring withtheir importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle. . . chewthe cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make thenoise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they aremany in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little,shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome _insects_ ofthe hour.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
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chew, chink, Chinks, cud, fern, grasshopper, grasshoppers, half a dozen, half dozen, importunate, oak, reposed, the British
«Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Simplicity
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accounts, affairs, a million, dozen, half a dozen, half dozen, nail, nailed, simplicity, thousand million, thumb, thumbs, two dozen
«There are only about a half dozen things that make 80% of the difference in any area of our lives.»
Author: Jim Rohn
(Author, Speaker)
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any, area, difference, dozen, half, half a dozen, Half a Life, half dozen, half life, halves, lives, There are
