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Letter "T" » The Telling
«Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.»
Author: Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
(Critic, Historian)
| About:
Admiration,
Love
| Keywords:
admires, all told, are, loves, Tell, Tell Me, tell on, The Telling, WHO, will
«Truth disappears with the telling of it»
«I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.»
Author: Pietro Aretino
| About:
Lies,
Love,
Relationships,
Romance,
Truth
| Keywords:
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«Tell me what you brag about and I'll tell you what you lack»
«No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.»
«And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.»
«The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling; the comic story and the witty story upon the matter.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
comic, humorous, The Comic, The Telling, witty
«Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Reality,
Self awareness,
Truth
| Keywords:
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«Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
all told, as required, courage, Do, really, requires, strength, Tell, tell on, temptation, temptations, terrible, There are, The Telling, The Temptations, think, weakness, yield, yields, yield up
«Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.»
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