“ There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you'll get back cash. If you don't have faith, you'll get soggy bread. ”
- Don King- Copy
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“ It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it. ”
- Edgar Watson Howe- Copy
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“ What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude? ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
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“ O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee;" The western wind was wild and dank wi' foam And all alone went she. ”
- Charles Kingsley- Copy
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“ A little rain will fillThe lily's cup which hardly moists the field. ”
- Edwin Arnold- Copy
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“ A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moists the field. ”
- Edwin Arnold- Copy
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“ My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry. ”
- Paul Taylor- Copy
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“ There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp. ”
- John Steinbeck- Copy
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“ And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The Thing became a trumpet; whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas! too few. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
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“ No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
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“ There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ They say that Hell is hot, but is it humid? Because I can take the heat; it's the humidity I can't stand. ”
- Ronnie Shakes- Copy
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“ As noble art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys. ”
- Johann Friedrich von Schiller- Copy
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“ There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him… ”
- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield- Copy
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“ I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he read, and made clammy tracks along the page (or so I fully believed) like a snail. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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