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The old man
«The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.»
Author: Denis Diderot
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adult, approaches, closed, infant, old man, running back, The old man
«Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.»
«Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; / And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: / Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.»
«LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents. The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery of human intelligence over brute inertia.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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antique, antiques, artistic, brute, diligence, folds, illustration, illustrations, inertia, justly, Laocoon, piece of work, representing, scripture, serpents, that name, The old man
«There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.»
«The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying such a laugh was money in a man's pocket because it cut down the doctor's bills like anything»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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anatomies, anatomy, bills, cut down, details, ended, joyously, laughed, loud, old man, pocket, pocket money, shook, The Doctor, The old man
«May your trouble be like the old man's teeth - few and far between»
Author: Proverb
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The old man
«Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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alter, care for, child care, greatly, lad, old man, rattle, rattled, tastes, The old man, The Young Man, whore, young man