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presents
«Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.»
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
(Editor, Humanist, Priest)
| Keywords:
applause, approval, bronze, bronzed, casting vote, effigy, presents, self-satisfied, stand for, stand in, stare, The Crowd, the market
«His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.»
Author: Evelyn Waugh
| Keywords:
correspondence, Correspondences, courtesy, encountered, ended, extravagant, presents, punctilious, somewhat, wedding
«Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents»
Author: Louisa May Alcott
(Author)
| About:
Christmas,
Gifts
| Keywords:
Christmas present, presents
«Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination»
«Experiment to me Is every one I meet If it contain a Kernel? The Figure of a Nut Presents upon a Tree Equally plausibly, But Meat within, is requisite To Squirrels, and to Me»
«It is more blessed to give than receive; for example, wedding presents»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Giving
| Keywords:
for example, presents, wedding
«He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
acceptable, impoverish, impoverishing, presents
«But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents.»
Author: William Carlos Williams
(Poet)
| Keywords:
declaim, declaimed, declaiming, declaims, presents
