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«By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it»
Author: Joseph Collins
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Emotion
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discouraged, encouraged, holier-than-thou, holier, humorless, literal, perfume, reformatories, reformatory, repress, repressing, rigid, starving, stereotype, stereotyped, stereotyping
«RAREBIT, n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that _riz-de-veau a la financiere_ is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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banker, calf, comestible, explained, humorless, known as, point out, rabbit, rabbit hole, rarebit, solemnly, toad, veau, Welsh, Welsh rabbit
«That's the interesting thing about becoming a father. Suddenly you universally have something in common with other people. I can be sitting next to a very straight, humorless businessman or stockbroker type on an airplane and we'll just start talking about kids. And that conversation last three or four hours.»
Author: Johnny Depp
(Actor)
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airplane, Airplanes, businessman, common interest, conversation, Father, hours, humorless, interesting, in common, kids, sitting, straight, suddenly, talking, type, universally