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«Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.»
Author: Katherine Whitehorn
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Consequences
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Great A, liable, motives, preoccupation
«The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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collected, dry rot, here and there, liable, luxuriant, man of science, moss, mosses, public works, rot, sprout, sprouting, timber, yards
«The reputation of a woman may be compared to a mirror, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Reputation
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compared, liable, shining, sullied, sullying
«The power rests with the multitude, but let them beware how the exercise of it turns against their own rights! It is not the idol but the worshippers that are to be dreaded, and who, by degrading one of their fellows, render themselves liable to be branded with the same indignities.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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Branded, dreaded, idol, indignities, indignity, liable, worshipper, worshippers