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«ABSENT, adj. Peculiarly exposed to the tooth of detraction; vilifed; hopelessly in the wrong; superseded in the consideration and affection of another.To men a man is but a mind. Who cares What face he carries or what form he wears? But woman's body is the woman. O, Stay thou, my sweetheart, and do never go, But heed the warning words the sage hath said: A woman absent is a woman dead. --Jogo Tyree»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: adj, detraction, detractions, exposed, sage, supersede, superseded, supersedes, The Warning, tooth
«ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: adj, detraction, detractions, illustrious, malice, shafting, shafts, suitably
«Had you any eye behind you, you might see more detraction at your heels than fortunes before you.»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: detraction, detractions, fortunes, heels
«Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: detraction, detractions, mending
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