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«Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved»
«Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.»
«It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil.»
Author: George Sand
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«Life is fury, he'd thought. Fury ? sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal ? drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths. Out of furia comes creation, inspiration, originality, passion, but also violence, pain, pure unafraid destruction, the giving and receiving of blows from which we never recover. The Furies pursue us; Shiva dances his furious dance to create and also to destroy. But never mind about gods! Sara ranting at him represented the human spirit in its purest, least socialized form. This is what we are, what we civilize ourselves to disguise ? the terrifying human animal in us, the exalted, transcendent, self-destructive, untramelled lord of creation.»
«Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.»
«A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one»
«I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent»
«If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
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aside, breeding, coarse, coarser, coarsest, degenerate, disgust, familiarity, infallibly, intimacy, lay aside, mistress, nights, productive
«For the devil is better pleased with coarse blockheads and with folks who are useful to nobody; because where such characters abound, then things do not go on prosperously here on earth»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
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abound, abounded, abounding, abounding in, abounding with, abounds, abound in, blockheads, characters, coarse, coarser, coarsest, folks, go on, pleased, prosperously
«The Bible was written by barbarians in a barbarous, coarse and vulgar age»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
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barbarians, barbarous, coarse, coarser, coarsest, The Barbarians, vulgar
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