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Letter "P" » peacock
«At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.»
«I can live without it all / love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear.»
Author: Erica Jong
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Keywords:
baggage,
hungers,
peacock,
peacocks,
pump,
pumping,
pumps,
strut,
struts,
strutting,
tongues,
wet
«At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing.»
«She is a peacock in everything but beauty»
«If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Essayist,
Lecturer,
Poet)
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Keywords:
anything,
bustle,
bustles,
bustling,
corner,
cornered,
discoveries,
down,
extraordinary,
goes,
go down on,
hits,
hit man,
ignorant,
In a,
knew,
modest,
peacock,
peacocks,
sit,
sit by,
sit in,
such,
up and down,
would
«The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was ablaze with scarlet umbrellas»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Essayist,
Lecturer,
Poet)
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Keywords:
ablaze,
embroidery,
In the City,
Italians,
Palermo,
peacock,
peacocks,
plume,
plumed,
plumes,
rainy,
scarlet,
umbrellas
«The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.»
«The pride of the peacock is the glory of God./ The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. / The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. / The nakedness of woman is the work of God.»
Author: William Blake
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Engraver,
Mystic,
Painter,
Poet)
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Keywords:
bounties,
bounty,
goat,
lust,
nakedness,
peacock,
peacocks,
The Bounty,
The Goat,
wrath