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«Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.»
Author: Agatha Christie
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Detective,
Novelist,
Playwright)
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About:
Animals,
Dogs
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Keywords:
corner,
crawl,
crawled,
crawling,
crawling with,
crawls,
dogs,
lick,
licks,
once more,
rejoin,
wounds
«For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(
Author,
Satirist)
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Keywords:
chosen,
corner,
dirt,
furnishing,
furnishings,
have got,
hive,
hives,
honey,
noblest,
poison,
ranging,
search and,
sweetness,
sweetness and light,
wax,
waxes,
waxing
«All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.»
Author: Albert Camus
(
Essayist,
Novelist,
Playwright)
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Keywords:
corner,
deeds,
door,
restaurant,
revolve,
revolves,
revolving,
ridiculous,
street corner,
The Restaurant,
works
«At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.»
«Corner a dog in a dead-end street and it will turn and bite»
«Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.»
«An eye is blind in another man's corner.»
«and you have not built a wall unless you have rounded a corner.»
«Broad, wholesome, charitable views ... can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.»
Author: Mark Twain
(
Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
acquired,
broad,
broadest,
broads,
charitable,
corner,
cornered,
earth,
little,
the Earth,
vegetate,
vegetated,
vegetates,
vegetating,
views,
view as,
wholesome
«If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(
Essayist,
Lecturer,
Poet)
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Keywords:
anything,
bustle,
bustles,
bustling,
corner,
cornered,
discoveries,
down,
extraordinary,
goes,
go down on,
hits,
hit man,
ignorant,
In a,
knew,
modest,
peacock,
peacocks,
sit,
sit by,
sit in,
such,
up and down,
would