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«Of two evils, choose the prettier»
«I have seen purer liquors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtesans here in San Francisco than in any other place I have ever visited; and it is my unbiased opinion that California can and does furnish the best bad things that are available in America.»
Author: Hinton Helper
(Writer)
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Bowie, Bowie knife, California, finer, Francisco, furnish, guns, knives, liquors, pistols, prettier, purer, San, San Francisco, tobacco, truer, unbiased, visited
«I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.»
Author: Isaac Newton
(Mathematician, Physicist)
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Children,
Play
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divert, diverting, diverts, now and then, pebble, prettier, sea shore, shell, shore, smoother, undiscovered
«Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.»
«Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says. they all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.»
Author: Neil Simon
(Playwright)
| Keywords:
blond, chances, connections, conviction, cooperation, criteria, efforts, exclusion, firmly, floor, important person, interests, luckier, Michelangelo, of your own, painted, prettier, rearing, rears, respects, rubbed, rubbing, rub up, sensitivity, smarter, talented, taller
«I wish my hair was thicker, and I wish my feet were prettier. My toes are really ugly. I wish my ears were smaller. And my nose could be smaller too.»
«I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.»
Author: Isaac Newton
(Mathematician, Physicist)
| Keywords:
diverting, pebble, prettier, seashore, shell, smoother
«I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers / because males have got to try and justify their existence.»
Author: Orson Welles
| Keywords:
belong to, brighten, brightened, brightening, brightens, desperation, feathers, have got, justify, luxury, madden, maddening, prettier, Pretty Woman, The Birds
«His wardrobe was extensive--very extensive--not strictly classical perhaps, not quite new, nor did it contain any one garment made precisely after the fashion of any age or time, but everything was more or less spangled; and what can be prettier than spangles!»
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