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«Insurance: An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: beating, game of chance, gaming table, insurance, permitted, The Player
«If God does not exist, then everything is permitted»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Novelist, Writer) | About: God | Keywords: does not exist, exist, permitted
«Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth»
Author: Giovanni Boccaccio | About: Heaven | Keywords: enjoyment, experienced, permitted
«It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may oft»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville (Historian, Political scientist) | Keywords: American Girl, an American, enjoys, lets, Lose Control, oft, permitted, rein, reined, reins
«If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.»
Author: Calvin Coolidge (President) | About: Failure | Keywords: discourage, permitted
«It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken (Critic, Journalist) | Keywords: actual, actual sin, bachelor, celibacy, permitted, regards
«It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship»
Author: Lord Byron | About: Friendship, Praise | Keywords: flatter, permitted, praises, sincerity, The Voice
«Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.»
Author: Quentin Crisp (Author) | Keywords: an account, hearer, misfortunes, permitted, pleasantly, shortens
«It is far better that we admitted a thousand devils to roam at large than that we permitted one such impostor and monster as Moses, Joshua, Samuel, and the Bible prophets, to come with the pretended word of God and have credit among us»
Author: Thomas Paine (Writer) | About: Belief, Religion | Keywords: admitted, at large, come with, devils, impostor, impostors, I Samuel, Joshua, monster, Moses, permitted, pretended, Prophets, roam, roamed, roaming, roams, Samuel, Word of God
«It is not permitted to a man who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business, and he cannot but mould or sing after a new fashion because no disaster is like another.»
Author: William Butler Yeats (Dramatist, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: chisel, chisels, chisel in, disaster, mould, originality, pen, permitted, to a man
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