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Letter "L" » lure
«The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it»
Author: Edward Fitzgerald
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«Savor sufficient to lure the wispiest ghost into corpulence.»
«The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash.»
Author: James Chiles
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«Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.»
Author: Samuel Ullman
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«In time the savage bull sustains the yoke, / In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure. / In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, / In time the flint is pierced with softest shower.»
Author: Thomas Kyd
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«Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.»
«The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.»
«PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.»
«To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.»
Author: George Orwell
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Essayist,
Novelist)
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