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Letter "C" » carelessness
«The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness»
«They were careless people, Tom and Daisy ? they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made?»
«By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
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Apathy
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absorption, apathy, bred, by far, carelessness, contempt, foe, indifference, pursuits, self-satisfaction
«Lizzie! I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. But don't be hard in your construction of me. You don't know what my state of mind towards you is. You don't know how you haunt me and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life, WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes almost wish you had struck me dead along with it.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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affect, bewilder, carelessness, construction, My state, officious
«Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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abhorring, abhors, carelessness, filled, sufficient, to be filled, vacuum
«To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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carelessness, looks, misfortune, parent, parenting, regarded
«It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.»
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