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real deceit our-actions
Charles Caleb Colton The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
real honest strategy
Charles Caleb Colton Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
real character mean
Charles Caleb Colton Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give twenty thousand pounds for a good one, because he could immediately make double that sum by means of it.
real home thinking
Charles Caleb Colton We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.
real writing editing
Charles Caleb Colton Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
real heart optimistic
Charles Dickens Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.
real words-of-wisdom quality
Charles Dickens A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned.
real men soldier
Charles Studd It takes a real man to make a true confession-a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.
real-friends community true-friendship
Paramahansa Yogananda When you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
wine men envy
Charles Dickens The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.
wine voice broken
Charles Dickens "It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."
wine knowing drunk
Edith Wharton I have drunk of the wine of life at last, I have known the thing best worth knowing, I have been warmed through and through, never to grow quite cold again till the end.
wine bottles opening
Edith Wharton We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!
wine simple glasses
David Hyde Pierce Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You're not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else.
wine way helping
Athenaeus the Egyptians became fond of wine and bibulous; and so a way was found among them to help those who could not afford wine, namely, to drink that made from barley; they who took it were so elated that they sang, danced, and acted in every way like persons filled with wine.
wine gentleman use
Athenaeus It is the mark of a gentleman to be moderate in the use of wine.
wine years glasses
Athenaeus On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a [glass], and said that it was sixteen years old. 'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.
wine glasses dust
Arthur Rubinstein ...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how a great wine connoisseur invited the composer to dinner. 'This is the Brahms of my cellar,' he said to his guests, producing a dust-covered bottle and pouring some into the master's glass. Brahms looked first at the color of the wine, then sniffed its bouquet, finally took a sip, and put the glass down without saying a word. 'Don't you like it?' asked the host. 'Hmm,' Brahms muttered. 'Better bring your Beethoven!'