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«Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all. How do we define this lively darting about with words, of hitting them back and forth, this sort of brief smile of ideas which should be conversation?»
Author: Guy de Maupassant
| Keywords:
back and forth, darting, fascinating, hitting, lively, pleasing, seeming, touching, trifles
«Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.»
Author: John Wanamaker
(Founder, Merchant)
| About:
Advertising
| Keywords:
deception, detrimental, seeming
«Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, are merely shadows cast by outward things on stone or canvas, having in themselves no separate existence. Architecture, existing in itself, and not in seeming a something it is not, surpasses them as substance shadow.»
«Among the Round Tablers [at the Algonquin Hotel],Sherwood stood out like a grandfather's clock. The tick of his talk was measured, his words seeming to be spaced by minutes, but when he chimed he struck gaily.»
«Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.»
Author: Thomas Alva Edison
(Inventor)
| Keywords:
accomplishment, busy, forethought, perspiration, planning, production, seeming, The Object of
«HYPOCRITE, n. One who, profession virtues that he does not respect secures the advantage of seeming to be what he depises.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Hypocrisy
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hypocrite, profession, secures, seeming
«Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible,»
«Each of us will one day be judged by our standard of life -- not by our standard of living; by our measure of giving -- not by our measure of wealth; by our simple goodness -- not by our seeming greatness.»
«Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
seeming, submit, terrors, trifles
«A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.»
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