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Letter "O" » opulent
«The Polo Lounge is like a fine old mink coat: opulent, dignified and warm.»
«The voice soared majestically, hugely, in the role, flooding the house with opulent, gleaming tones.»
«Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.»
Author: Aeschylus
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Dramatist,
Playwright)
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About:
Mankind,
Prosperity
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Keywords:
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Passer,
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with pride
«Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent: but these are all poor and worthless compared with the common light which the sun sends into all our windows, which pours freely, impartially over hill and valley, which kindles daily the eastern and western sky; and so the common lights of reason, and conscience, and love, are of more worth and dignity than the rare endowments which give celebrity to a few.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
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Author,
Clergyman)
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Keywords:
apartments,
celebrity,
eastern,
endowment,
endowments,
illuminating,
impartially,
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modes,
opulent,
sends,
The Apartments,
valley,
worthless
«The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges, if by decency and proprie»