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«I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities.I failed history.»
Author: Sting
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admirable, baron, Barons, devoid, devoid of, monotonous, robber, sordid, succession
«Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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Nature
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beauties, changes, cradle, cradled, cradles, Cradle To The Grave, From the Cradle, gentle, grave, graver, gravest, mark, night time, scarcely, season, seasoning, succession, The Grave
«Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| About:
Life
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lessons, lived, succession, understood
«Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Madness
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exclusively, fast, fast one, madness, succession
«PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.He lived in a period prehistoric, When all was absurd and phantasmagoric. Born later, when Clio, celestial recorded, Set down great events in succession and order, He surely had seen nothing droll or fortuitous In anything here but the lies that she threw at us. --Orpheus Bowen»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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antedate, antedated, antedating, art museums, belonging, Bowen, celestial, Clio, droll, fortuitous, Orpheus, perpetuating, phantasmagoric, prehistoric, recorded, set down, succession, threw
«Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
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Life
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influences, measured, modifies, modify, modifying, rapidity, succession