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«A very slight change in our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the world about us; the moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine»
Author: George Moore
(Philosopher)
| About:
Change,
Habit,
Reality,
Senses
| Keywords:
About us, pass out, permanency, routine, slight
«But some love not the method of your first; Romance they count it, throw't away as dust; If I should meet with such, what should I say; Must I slight them as they slight me, or nay?»
«At 34 she is an extremely beautiful woman, lavishly endowed by nature with a few flaws in the masterpiece: She has an insipid double chin, her legs are too short and she has a slight potbelly. She has a wonderful bosom, though.»
«Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.»
«Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.»
«All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.»
Author: Wilson Mizner
| About:
Anger
| Keywords:
conceived, continues, contradicts, inadequate, occasions, provocation, provocations, rule of, scripture, sinful, slight
«Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Acquaintance
| Keywords:
acquaintance, famous, intimate, obscure, slight
«All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
backgammon, checker, checkers, gaming, right and wrong, right to vote, slight, tinge, tinged, tingeing