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«Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast / And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.»
Author: C. Day Lewis | Keywords: An Age, deceit, overcast, peak, swore, the Peak
«I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.»
Author: Elie Wiesel (Writer) | About: Silence | Keywords: encourages, helps, humiliation, humiliations, oppressor, sides, swore, The Victim, tormented, tormentor, victim, wherever
«I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I lost two weeks»
Author: Joe E. Lewis (Comedian, Singer) | About: Dieting, Drinking, Funny | Keywords: diet, drinking, eating, fourteen, heavy, swear off, swore, two weeks, weeks
«Diogenes struck the father when the son swore»
Author: Robert Burton (Clergyman, Writer) | About: Family | Keywords: Diogenes, struck, swore, the Son
«UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse.His understanding was so keen That all things which he'd felt, heard, seen, He could interpret without fail If he was in or out of jail. He wrote at Inspiration's call Deep disquisitions on them all, Then, pent at last in an asylum, Performed the service to compile 'em. So great a writer, all men swore, They never had not read before. --Jorrock Wormley»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: cerebral, compile, exhaustively, expounded, interpret, jail, Kant, pent, rode, secretion, swore, the Pent
«FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.A king there was who lost an eye In some excess of passion; And straight his courtiers all did try To follow the new fashion.Each dropped one eyelid when before The throne he ventured, thinking'Twould please the king. That monarch swore He'd slay them all for winking.What should they do? They were not hot To hazard such disaster; They dared not close an eye --dared not See better than their master.Seeing them lacrymose and glum, A leech consoled the weepers: He spread small rags with liquid gum And covered half their peepers.The court all wore the stuff, the flame Of royal anger dying. That's how court-plaster got its name Unless I'm greatly lying. --Naramy Oof»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: consoled, courtier, courtiers, court plaster, dared, despot, despots, dropped, eyelid, glum, leech, leeches, liquid, plaster, plasters, rags, ridicule, royal court, small stuff, swore, The Flame, ventured, winking, wore
«MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.He swore that all other religions were gammon, And wore out his knees in the worship of Mammon. --Jared Oopf»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: City of New York, gammon, Holy City, Jared, Mammon, swore, The City of God, wore
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