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Letter "S" » sober
«Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate»
Author: Colley Cibber
(Actor, Playwright)
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«Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.»
«The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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«Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.»
Author: Jalal ad-Din Rumi
(Mystic, Poet)
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absent, absents, badly, disgraceful, minded, sober, The Lover
«Let him who sins when drunk be punished when sober»
«The best cure for drunkenness is whilst sober, to observe a drunken person»
«There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell»
«The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
criticisms, crushed, faculties, mystical, sober, stimulate, sway, unquestionably
«The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody sober enough to stagger to the polls will.»
Author: Will Rogers
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dry, polled, Polling, polls, sober, South, stagger, staggered, staggering, staggers, the South, To South, to the south, vote
«The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.»
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