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Letter "P" » pleased
«Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it... the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.»
Author: Alexander Hamilton
(Lawyer, Secretary, Soldier, Statesman, Thinker)
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day-and-night, For some, Labor Day, pervade, pervaded, pleased, profoundly, The Genius
«There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased,They scarcely come inclining to be pleased:And sure he must have more than mortal Skill,Who please one against his Will.»
«So long as they don't get violent, I want to let everyone say what they wish, for I myself have always said exactly what pleased me.»
«The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
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advantage, guests, housekeeper, housekeepers, pleased, very much
«O soft embalmer of the still midnight, / Shutting, with careful fingers and benign / Our gloom-pleased eyes.»
«They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, tr»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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despotism, exile, exiled, exiles, free spirit, oppression, pleased, rebels, slavery, The Exile
«Riches, like glory or health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.»
«My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing will begin in five minutes. - During radio microphone test»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
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Americans, bombed, bombing, fellow, five, legislation, microphone, minutes, On the Radio, outlawed, outlawing, outlaws, pleased, radio, Russia, signed, test, The Outlaw
«The Devil himself is good, when he is pleased»
«The play, I remember, pleased not the million; 'twas caviar to the general»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
caviar, pleased, The General, the play
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