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«An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.»
Author: Cato The Elder
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Anger
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angry, mouth, opens, Open Your Eyes, shuts, shutting, shut in
«Hate shuts her soul when dove-eyed mercy pleads»
«If God shuts one door, He opens another»
«He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error»
«The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish: it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.»
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
(Author, Novelist)
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benevolent, contemplative, draws, generates, pipe, shuts, The Philosopher, thoughtful, unaffected
«Whoever shuts his ears at the cry of the poor, they also shall cry themselves, but not be heard.»
«Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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mouths, occasion, on occasion, possesses, shuts
«Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
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Literature
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awkwardness, barrier, discourses, discoursing, disenfranchised, embarrassment, embarrassments, gracious, Here I Am, shuts, sweet talk, talk to me, The Discourses, The Embarrassment, the senses, The Sweet, Utopia, Utopias
«A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.»
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