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Letter "H" » harmless
«It is because the public are a mass -- inert, obtuse, and passive -- that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are -- and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.»
«Gold that buys health can never be ill spent; nor hours laid out in harmless merriment»
Author: John Webster
(Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
buys, harmless, ill health, laid, merriment, out in
«Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters»
Author: Margaret Halsey
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Humility
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characters, defects, engaging, forte, gradually, harmless, length, mild, milder, mildest, shortcoming, shortcomings, staring, to seem
«I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.»
Author: Molly Ivins
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adults, consenting, Consenting Adults, dearly, discuss, harmless, perversion, perversions, Texas
«I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.»
«I suggest that the anthropomorphic god-idea is not a harmless infirmity of human thought, but a very noxious fallacy, which is largely responsible for the calamities the world is at present enduring»
Author: William Archer
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anthropomorphic, at present, calamities, enduring, fallacies, fallacy, harmless, infirmity, noxious, suggest
«Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant - the only harmless great thing.»
«I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness»
«I was never much displeased with those harmless delusions that tend to make us more happy.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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Delusions, displeased, harmless
«Lexicographer. A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.»
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