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Letter "D" » dozen
«People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.»
«Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his opinion in the course of a year no matter how absurd that opinion might be. We see every day in politics, in business, in social life, large masses of people brought to embrace the most revolutionary ideas, sometimes within a few days. It is all a question of getting hold of them in the right way and working on their weak points.»
«No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.»
«Send two dozen roses to Room 424 and put `Emily, I love you' on the back of the bill.»
Author: Groucho Marx
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Actor,
Comedian,
Singer)
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Keywords:
back room,
bill,
billed,
billing,
dozen,
I Love You,
put back,
room,
roses,
send,
send back,
The Bill,
two dozen
«Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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About:
Simplicity
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Keywords:
accounts,
affairs,
a million,
dozen,
half a dozen,
half dozen,
nail,
nailed,
simplicity,
thousand million,
thumb,
thumbs,
two dozen
«There are only about a half dozen things that make 80% of the difference in any area of our lives.»
Author: Jim Rohn
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Author,
Speaker)
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Keywords:
any,
area,
difference,
dozen,
half,
half a dozen,
Half a Life,
half dozen,
half life,
halves,
lives,
There are
«Man cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen»
«Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.»
«She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.»
«The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate /a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes /he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Author,
Essayist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
agreeable,
Bright Eyes,
destitute,
destitute of,
dozen,
flexibility,
precarious,
reposes,
stamped,
stroke,
two dozen,
wealthy,
wealthy man