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«Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
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Love
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account, bewilderment, one-person, overtaken, overtakes, overtaking, The Strange
«Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.»
Author: Katherine Anne Porter
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Experience
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in the long run, long run, overtaken, overtakes, overtaking, The Long Run
«Now is the time for us to strike. We must strengthen our foothold in Asia, to ensure no nation overtakes us.»
«Have no fear of sudden disaster or of the ruin that overtakes the wicked, for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being snared.»
«Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.»
«Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.»
«A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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entertain, lectures, nap, napping, Naps, overtakes, superannuated, The Visitors, unwelcome, visitors
«Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.»
Author: Napoleon Hill
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«Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.»
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