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«I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power»
«Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment -- a way of looking at one's existence, one's misfortune, or one's discomfort. If you really love, if you really know how to laugh, the result is the same: you forget yourself.»
Author: Claude Roy
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Love
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attachment, detachment, discomfort, discomforting, discomforts, looking at, misfortune
«Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.»
«It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good education. Mine was defective and I feel the inconvenience, if not the misfortune of not receiving a classical education. Knowledge is the»
Author: Sam Houston
(General, Lawyer, Politician)
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Education
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classical, Classical education, defective, defectives, if not, inconvenience, inconvenienced, misfortune, receiving, the Classical
«Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.»
«I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.»
«Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.»
Author: Dorothy Parker
(Poet, Writer)
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Misfortune
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arouses, arousing, ceases, especially, excite, irritation, irritations, misfortune, pity, prolonged, prolonging, prolongs, recited, recites, reciting, the point, to the point
«Misfortune does not always result in harm.»
Author: Italian Proverb
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misfortune