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«Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life»
«Well what's wrong with ain't? And as for saying 'Rizzuto slud into second' it just ain't natural. Sounds silly to me. Slud is something more than slid. It means sliding with great effort.»
«You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived»
«We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are»
Author: James Harvey Robinson
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«The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.»
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
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essence, ignore, intellect, intellectual, literature, silly, sterile, substance, substances, The Passions, The War
«Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
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«When the child is twelve, your wife buys her a splendidly silly article of clothing called a training bra. To train what? I never had a training jock. And believe me, when I played football, I could have used a training jock more than any twelve-year-old needs a training bra.»
Author: Bill Cosby
(Actor, Comedian, Producer)
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article, Articles of, article of clothing, bra, bras, buys, clothing, football, jock, played, silly, splendidly, the article, train, training, twelve
«The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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