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«Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a sense it is. But failing to do anything about a score of drunks or a hundred vagrants may destroy an entire community.»
Author: James Q. Wilson
| About:
Drinks
| Keywords:
arresting, drunks, failing, harmed, identifiable, in a sense, score, unjust, vagrant, vagrants
«What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.»
Author: John Berger
(Painter)
| Keywords:
achieves, bourgeoisie, cinema, continuity, might-have-been, princes, spontaneous, vagrant, vagrants
«I must down to the seas again to the vagrant gypsy life,To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife; And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's o»
«PREJUDICE, n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
prejudice, support, vagrant, vagrants, visible
«There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought --a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
earthly, earthly life, eternities, forlorn, grotesque, grotesques, homeless, no Hell, vagrant, vagrants, wandering
«Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, / More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise. / His house was known to all the vagrant train, / He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
skilled, vagrant, vagrants, wanderings
«The age being now past of vagrant excursion and fortuitous hostility, he was under the necessity of travelling from court to court, scorned and repulsed as a wild projector, an idle promiser of kingdoms in the clouds; nor has any part of the world y»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
excursion, fortuitous, hostility, projector, projectors, promiser, vagrant, vagrants
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