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afflicting
«Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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Love
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«Queen Victoria - this flabby, fat, flatulent looking scion and successor of the most ignoble line of Royal Georges - Her chief claim to the remembrance of posterity will be that she has the means of afflicting the English people with a most prolific»
Author: John Norton
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afflicting, English people, flabby, flatulent, Georges, ignoble, posterity, prolific, Queen Victoria, remembrance, royal, scion, successor, Victoria
«And he continued to stare at her, afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which, no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.»
Author: John Galsworthy
(Novelist, Playwright)
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afflicted, afflicting, continued, immoral, no doubt, ran, stare
«It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.»
Author: Aeschylus
(Dramatist, Playwright)
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Advice
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afflicted, afflicting, prosperity
«Little things console us because little things afflict us»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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afflict, afflicting, console, consoled, consoles, consoling
«Separation from the wife, disgrace from one's own people, an enemy saved in battle, service to a wicked king, poverty, and a mismanaged assembly: these six kinds of evils, if afflicting a person, burn him even without fire.»
«The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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afflicting, afflicts, amateurs, artistic, like an amateur, temperament, temperaments
«As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
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afflicted, afflicting, demented, deprived, deprived of, deprives, devil, the Devil, thus
«It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
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afflicted, afflicting, patience, talk of