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Letter "L" » levity
«Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.»
«You faced front, you seldom smiled, since levity was not the mark you wanted put across your face forever.»
«MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian, formerly in universal use among modern civilized nations as medicine, and now engaged in supplying art with an excellent pigment. He is handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.By means of the Mummy, mankind, it is said, Attests to the gods its respect for the dead. We plunder his tomb, be he sinner or saint, Distil him for physic and grind him for paint, Exhibit for money his poor, shrunken frame, And with levity flock to the scene of the shame. O, tell me, ye gods, for the use of my rhyme: For respecting the dead what's the limit of time? --Scopas Brune»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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«Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.»
«The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity - and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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«My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity»
«Nothing like a little judicious levity.»
«Levity of behavior is the bone of all that is good and virtuous»