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class words-of-wisdom success-of-others
Charles Dickens The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.
class safety age
Charles Dickens Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper class.
class citizens degradation
Charles Dickens The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict.
class homicide one-thing
Chris Colfer When one thing takes another away, what do we call that?” she asked my class. “Homicide!” I called out
class enough situation
David Weber She didn't know a lot about politics – yet – but she'd learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be counted on to make a bad situation worse.
class russia mafia
David Remnick There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.
class want way
David Riesman It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.
class community interest
David Ricardo The interest of the landlord is always opposed to the interests of every other class in the community.
shoes contentment world
Charles Caleb Colton Our incomes should be like our shoes, if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip. Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more. True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
shoes earth pairs
Chogyam Trungpa It's easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.
shoes talking legs
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie She could not complain about not having shoes when the person she was talking to had no legs.
shoes lingerie weakness
Edith Head As women, we all have certain weaknesses. I know one who can't resist pretty shoes but has nothing suitable to wear with them. Others adore frilly lingerie but never have any money to buy outer clothing.
shoes brown
Bill Nighy Never go anywhere you have to wear brown shoes.
shoes numbers choices
Bertrand Russell The Axiom of Choice is necessary to select a set from an infinite number of socks, but not an infinite number of shoes.
shoes pockets rolling
Alan Tudyk That's where I'm comfortable - playing a jackass on the scene, rolling in with my pocket watch and my buffoon hairdo, with my shoes.
shoes boots coats
Charlie Chaplin I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.
shoes forever pairs
Chi McBride When you wear a fresh pair of shoes, you feel like you can never die. You feel like you're gonna live forever.
purple feelings insecurity
Alan Watts To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.
purple rags doe
Charles Dickens Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.
purple cereal milk
Bill Watterson I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.
purple lilies prophet
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.
purple lunch glasses
David Sedaris At the morgue, people were so desensitized that they would eat lunch in the glass walled room adjacent to the autopsy room. A viewing room. Because it had the best air conditioning in the building. So they would eat in there and maybe somebody would come in who had been found after being dead for three days and they would say: That is the exact purple I want for those drapes in the study. They didn't miss a beat. They could eat through anything.
purple scarlet woman women
Bible Bible The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour.
purple
Dan Castellaneta This donut has purple in the middle, purple is a fruit.
purple trying
James Whistler Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.
purple gains grapes
Juvenal The grape gains its purple tinge by looking at another grape. [Lat., Uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab uva.]