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«In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished»
«Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.»
Author: Bible
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diminished
«Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.»
«For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail: / And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it.»
Author: Bible
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Archer, diminished, hireling, hirelings, Kedar, residue, residues, The Mighty
«A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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cake, diminished, edges, Empire
«Possessions are usually diminished by possession.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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diminished, possession, possessions, usually
«Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided.»
«If a man could mount to heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had some one to share in his pleasure»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
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admiration, beauties, diminished, mighty, mount, mounting, mounts, mount up, survey, surveyed, surveying, surveys, The Mighty
«Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.»
Author: Walt Disney
(Producer)
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code, diminished, exchange, freely, heritage, ideals, preserved, standards