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deserted
«One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like»
Author: George Carlin
(Actor, Author, Comedian)
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area, deserted, deserting, for sure, Through the Desert
«I feel like one / Who treads alone / Some banquet-hall deserted, / Whose lights are fled, / Whose garlands dead / And all but he departed!»
«A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away--the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us--is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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affliction, bestow, coldly, deserted, purchase, purchasing power, staying power, sympathy
«Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.»
«He . . . felt towards those whom he had deserted that peculiar malignity which has, in all ages, been characteristic of apostates.»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
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all ages, apostate, apostates, characteristic, deserted, malignity, peculiar
«Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her»
«A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction»
«Centuries ago, sailors on long voyages used to leave a pair of pigs on every deserted island. Or they'd leave a pair of goats. Either way, on any future visit, the island would be a source of meat. These islands, they were pristine. These were home to breeds of birds with no natural predators. Breeds of birds that lived nowhere else on earth. The plants there, without enemies they evolved without thorns or poisons. Without predators and enemies, these islands, they were paradise. The sailors, the next time they visited these islands, the only things still there would be herds of goats or pigs. .... Does this remind you of anything? Maybe the ol' Adam and Eve story? .... You ever wonder when God's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?»
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
(Journalist, Novelist, Satirist)
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«Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms a»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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Men
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deserted, merchandise, stuffed, tenant, tenanted, tenants, warehouse, warehouses