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Letter "L" » lightest
«To be able to feel the lightest touch really is a gift.»
«When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?»
Author: Cyril Connolly
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«A wild, wick slip she was - but, she had the bonniest eye and sweetest smile, and lightest foot in the parish: and, after all, I believe she meant no harm; for when once she made you cry in good earnest, it seldom happened that she would not keep you company, and oblige you to be quiet that you might comfort her.»
«And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, / Speak unto Aaron and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick.»
«In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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Government
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lightest
«INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Injustice
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carry back, heaviest, lightest, load
«Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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flash, lightest, precisely, rustle, rustles, rustling, softest, The Lizard
«I could a tale unfold whose lightest wordWould harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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freeze, harrow, harrowed, harrowing, harrows, lightest, Spheres, tale, The Harrow, unfold
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