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Letter "W" » wooed
«Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.»
«Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.»
«Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette?the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.»
Author: John Tyler
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President)
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Keywords:
apt,
aptly,
compared,
coquette,
coquettes,
elude,
eluded,
eludes,
eluding,
embrace,
popularity,
woo,
wooed,
wooing,
woos
«For her heart was cold to all but gold,And the rich came not to woo --But honored well are charms to sellIf priests the selling do.»
«He that would woo a maid must feign, lie and flatter, but he that woos a widow must down with his britches and at her»
Author: Nathaniel Smith
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Keywords:
britches,
feign,
feigning,
flatter,
maid,
widow,
widowed,
woo,
wooed,
wooing,
woos
«Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo»
«''Healing,'' Papa would tell me, ''is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.''»
«Her virtue and the conscience of her worth,/ That would be wooed, and not unsought be won.»
«Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward,But then woos best when most his choice is froward.»
Author: William Shakespeare
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Dramatist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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Keywords:
affection,
but then,
coward,
faced,
fainting,
faints,
froward,
pale,
pales,
palest,
paling,
The Faint,
wooed,
wooing,
woos
«Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(
Dramatist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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About:
Men
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Keywords:
April,
December,
maids,
Wed,
weds,
wives,
woo,
wooed,
wooing,
woos