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Letter "S" » spoil
«Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them.»
«They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Fidelity,
Love,
Romance
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Keywords:
every,
every last,
forever,
last,
last out,
make it,
romance,
romances,
romancing,
spoil,
spoiling,
spoilt,
trying
«Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment»
«There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them»
«They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.»
«Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil? / Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it? / And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army: / And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
carry away,
Gog,
lions,
merchants,
people of Israel,
ride away,
riding,
sanctified,
Son of man,
spoil,
Tarshish,
the heathen,
The Young Lions
«The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.»
«Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(
Architect,
Engineer,
Painter,
Sculptor)
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About:
Action,
Mind
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Keywords:
disuse,
even so,
inaction,
intellect,
iron,
ironing,
irons,
just as,
rusted,
rusts,
spoil,
spoiling,
spoilt
«Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.»
Author: Thomas Fuller
(
Clergyman,
Writer)
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About:
Memory
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Keywords:
appetite,
digestion,
drop out,
feed on,
gluttonous,
greediness,
heed,
purse,
spoil,
take heed,
thereof
«My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face»