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«The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.»
«Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.»
«The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.»
«Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
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«One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.»
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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«More and more products are coming out in fiercely protective packaging designed to prevent consumers from consuming them. These days you have to open almost every consumer item by gnawing on the packaging.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
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Coming out, consumer, consumers, consuming, designed, fiercely, gnaw, gnawed, gnawing, gnaws, gnaw at, item, more and more, out in, packaged, packaging, prevent, products, protective, These Days
«Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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Charity
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charity, gnaw, gnawed, gnawing, gnaws, gnaw at, grateful, indebtedness, vengeful, worm
«The sting of conscience, like the gnawing of a dog at a bone, is mere foolishness»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
bone, foolishness, gnawing, gnaws, sting, The Sting