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«Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths, and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply»
«He rides in the game like heavy cavalry getting into position for the assault. trots about, keenly watchful, biding his time, a master of tactics and strategy.»
«Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs -- unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.»
«If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically»
«His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.»
«All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.»
«A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.»
«The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: keenly
«Every European visitor to the United States is struck by the comparative rarity of what he would call a face, by the frequency of men and women who look like elderly babies. If he stays in the States for any length of time, he will learn that this cannot be put down to a lack of sensibility -- the American feels the joys and sufferings of human life as keenly as anybody else. The only plausible explanation I can find lies in his different attitude to the past. To have a face, in the European sense of the word, it would seem that one must not only enjoy and suffer but also desire to preserve the memory of even the most humiliating and unpleasant experiences of the past.»