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Letter "A" » appall
«The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.»
«Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.»
Author: Cynthia Heimel
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«Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.»
Author: Katherine Mansfield
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Writer)
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About:
Life
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«Things said or done long years ago,Or things I did not do or sayBut thought that I might say or do,Weigh me down, and not a dayBut something is recalled,My conscience or my vanity appalled.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
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Dramatist,
Poet,
Writer)
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Keywords:
ago,
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«New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire»
Author: Henry James
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New York,
York
«The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
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Novelist)
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«The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.»
Author: Quentin Crisp
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Author)
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About:
Existence,
Goals,
Opinions,
People
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Keywords:
About us,
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«A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.»
«History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Baptist Minister,
Civil-Rights Leader)
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About:
History
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Keywords:
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«There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.»
Author: Victor Hugo
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Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
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