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«Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.»
Author: Alistair Cooke
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Funny,
Golf
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arrogance, deflated, deflates, deflating, exhibition, overweening, soured, whiff, whiffing, whiffs
«Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory»
«Sir, I view the proposal to hold an international exhibition at San Francisco with an equanimity bordering on indifference.»
Author: William S. Gilbert
(Lyricist)
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bordering, equanimity, exhibition, International, proposal, proposals, San
«This is a Senate of equals, of men of individual honor and personal character, and of absolute independence. We know no masters, we acknowledge no dictators. This is a hall for mutual consultation and discussion; not an arena for the exhibition of champions.»
Author: Daniel Webster
(Orator, Senator, Statesman)
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acknowledge, arena, Champions, consultation, discussion, equals, exhibition, hall, senate
«Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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abused, affected, at present, cathartic, cathartics, dramatic, dramatic art, exercising, exhibition, hypnotic, rarest, The Practice, untouched
«The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.»
«Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work»
Author: Woodrow T. Wilson
(President)
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Congress
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at work, exhibition, session, Sessions
«I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit . . . which I most desired to see was the one described as 'The Boneless Wonder'.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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Barnum, boneless, contained, exhibition, freaks, monstrosities, monstrosity
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