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«I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.»
Author: Jorge Luis Borges
(Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Solitude
| Keywords:
details, idle, pleases, suburb, suburbs, suppresses, without thinking
«Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.»
Author: Christian Nevell Bovee
| Keywords:
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«I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.»
«I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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entitle, entitled, entitles, fruits, individual, Individual right, individual rights, interfered, interferes, interfering, in labor, in no way, labor, naturally, pleases, rights, so far
«PROSPECT, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden.Blow, blow, ye spicy breezes -- O'er Ceylon blow your breath, Where every prospect pleases, Save only that of death. --Bishop Sheber»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
breezes, Ceylon, forbidding, pleases, spicy
«Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: walk sober off; before a sprightlier age comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage: leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please.»
«I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.»
«Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.»
«Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.»
«I am glad the invitation pleases your family. It will please my family to the fourth generation and my family of friends and, were they living, it would have pleased inordinately the kind of Grover Cleveland Democrats I had for parents.»
Author: Robert Frost
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Cleveland, Democrats, fourth, fourth generation, Grover Cleveland, inordinately, invitation, invitations, My Family, pleases
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