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«Grab your coat, and get your hat, Leave your worry on the doorstep Just direct your feet, To the sunny side of the street.»
«As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate lovingly, our own»
Author: Margaret Mead
| About:
Learning,
Travel
| Keywords:
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«It's hard when you look a certain way. I look All-American, sweet, girl-next-door, so naturally those are the parts that are going to land on my doorstep.»
Author: Melissa Joan Hart
(Actress)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
All American, American Girl, doorstep, doorsteps, Girl Next Door, The Girl Next Door
«The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.»
«To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell»
«The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Ignorance,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
doorstep, doorsteps, of our own, temple, Temple in, Temple of, The temple
«CUPID, n. The so-called god of love. This bastard creation of a barbarous fancy was no doubt inflicted upon mythology for the sins of its deities. Of all unbeautiful and inappropriate conceptions this is the most reasonless and offensive. The notion of symbolizing sexual love by a semisexless babe, and comparing the pains of passion to the wounds of an arrow --of introducing this pudgy homunculus into art grossly to materialize the subtle spirit and suggestion of the work --this is eminently worthy of the age that, giving it birth, laid it on the doorstep of prosperity.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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