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Letter "E" » entertain
«By entertaining of strange persons, men sometimes entertain angels unawares: but by entertaining of strange doctrines, many have entertained devils unaware»
«Audiences are the same all over the world, and if you entertain them, they'll respond.»
«Creative people must entertain lots of silly ideas in order to receive the occasional strokes of genius»
«Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.»
«A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself.»
«Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.»
«Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons - including all the assassins - entertain grave misgivings»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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About:
Death and dying,
Punishment
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Keywords:
assassins,
entertain,
expediency,
misgiving,
misgivings,
penalty,
regarding,
The Assassins
«CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disgrace before meat. _Capital Punishment_, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons --including all the assassins --entertain grave misgivings.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
anarchist,
anarchists,
assassins,
dinner table,
disgrace,
entertain,
expediency,
fork,
knife,
misgiving,
misgivings,
misgovernment,
penalty,
regarding,
repast,
supplies,
The Assassin,
The Assassins
«A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Critic,
Essayist,
Playwright)
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Keywords:
entertain,
lectures,
nap,
napping,
Naps,
overtakes,
superannuated,
The Visitors,
unwelcome,
visitors
«Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.»