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«Earth cannot show so brave a sight, / As when a single soul does fence / The batteries of alluring sense / And Heaven views it with delight.»

Author: Andrew Marvell (Poet, Politician, Satirist) | Keywords: allure, allured, allures, alluring, batteries, battery, fence, views

«The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.»

Author: John Mortimer | Keywords: allure, allured, allures, alluring, exchange, freedom of speech, stock

«An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.»

Author: Malcolm Muggeridge | Keywords: allure, alluring, indignation, mists, orgies, orgy, righteous, The Mist

«Power is not alluring to pure minds»

Author: Thomas Jefferson (Author, President) | About: Power | Keywords: allure, allured, allures, alluring, pure

«A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.»

Author: William Congreve | Keywords: allure, allured, allures, alluring, amiss, be amiss, disdain, disdained, disdains, scorn

«The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.»

Author: Buddha | About: World | Keywords: allure, allured, allures, alluring, apparent, distances, dream world, haze, heat, heated up, heating, heats, heat up, indeed, mirage, mirages, picture, treasures

«In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books»

Author: Michel de Montaigne (Philosopher, Writer) | About: Education | Keywords: allure, allured, allures, alluring, asses, lade, laded, laden, lading

«Rise to meet him in a pretty disorder - yes- O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.»

Author: William Congreve | Keywords: alluring, levee

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