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«Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death-fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.»
«We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.»
«A liar is always lavish of oaths.»
Author: Pierre Corneille (Dramatist, Poet) | About: Lies | Keywords: lavish, lavished, lavishing, oaths
«Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.»
«The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.»
«To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much sensual pleasure as possible into one's mouth more or less continually. Gratification, instant and lavish, is a birthright.»
«To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like? / They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.»
«We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.»
«The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.»