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«A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.»
«A pretty girl is like a melody That haunts you night and day Just like the strain Of a haunting refrain She'll start upon A marathon And run around your brain»
Author: Irving Berlin
(Composer)
| Keywords:
haunting, haunts, melody, Night and Day, refrain, run around, strain
«[Speak softly]Those who cannot hear an angry shout may strain to hear a whisper.»
«Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long»
«Birds build - but not I build; no, but strain,/ Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. / Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.»
«But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.»
«Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| About:
Jokes
| Keywords:
affections, in jokes, jokes, strain, straining
«A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it»
«Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
complaint, dejection, dwells, lamentation, Lamentations, observed, peculiar, strain, theme
«A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
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Affection,
Jokes
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affections, in jokes, jokes, strain, strained, straining
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