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Letter "N" » nerves
«You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams
| Keywords:
ache, drain, exhausting, intolerable, nerves, Physical pain, Physical strength, physical thing, rheumatism, steady, strain, toothache, toothaches, weeks
«When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?»
«We need the slower and more lasting stimulus of solitary reading as a relief from the pressure on eye, ear and nerves of the torrent of information and entertainment pouring from ever-open electronic jaws. It could end by stupefying us.»
«When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears - when you give your whole attention to it.»
«Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.»
«You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
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consideration, dear, mention, mentioning, nerves, twenty, with consideration
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