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Letter "W" » whittled
«There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather than the village bum's ability to whittle sticks and smoke cigarettes. The reason why the child does not is plain enough -- the bum has put himself on an equality with him and the teacher has not.»
Author: Floyd Dell
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«He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.»
«Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with from people , stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river.»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
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Banks, Historians, homes, make love, Pessimists, river bank, shouting, stealing, The Story, whittle, whittled, whittles, written record
«The privacy and dignity of our citizens [are] being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen -- a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of a [person's] life.»
Author: William Orville Douglas
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«As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.»
«Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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shingles, whittle, whittled, whittles
«I remember how my great-uncle Jerry would sit on the porch and whittle all day long. Once he whittled me a toy boat out of a larger toy boat I had. It was almost as good as the first one, except now it had bumpy whittle marks all over it. And no paint, because he had whittled off the paint.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
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«I will not whittle hall passes out of soap»
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