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«People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
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bacilli, bacillus, cholera, comma, commas, comma bacillus, insignificant, stricken, surprised
«Truffles must come to the table in their own stock [and] as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine-if you have never visited it-the desolate kingdom where it rules.»
«She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.»
«Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.»
«They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.»
«They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.»
«Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.»
«Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken.»
«The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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Poverty
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poverty-stricken, poverty, rich man, stricken, teeth, toothache, toothaches