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Letter "D" » distempers
«Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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distemper, distempered, distempers
«A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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«Enthusiasm. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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applications, curable, distemper, distempered, distempers, doses
«I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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«There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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«The wounded surgeon plies the steel / That questions the distempered part.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
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distemper, distempered, distempers, plies, ply, plying, steel, wounded
«Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness, and all the ugly distempers that make an ordered life impossible»
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