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«Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it.»
Author: Kirsten Dunst (Actress) | About: Smoking | Keywords: actresses, addiction, gross, models, smokes
«A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.»
«If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.»
«Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Dark Lord, gross, stumble
«DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters.All hail, Delusion! Were it not for thee The world turned topsy-turvy we should see; For Vice, respectable with cleanly fancies, Would fly abandoned Virtue's gross advances. --Mumfrey Mappel»
«God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers -- at bottom, merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!»
«A gross belly does not produce a refined mind»
Author: Proverb | Keywords: gross, refined
«Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.»
«Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Gratitude | Keywords: cultivation, gross
«Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.»

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