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«I have been so misused by chaste men with one wife, that I would live with satyrs all my life»
Author: Anna Wickham | Keywords: misuse, misused, satyr, satyrs
«The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.»
«Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones.»
«Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.»
«How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.»
«If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.»
«And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: / But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.»
«Anyone should be able to say on stage what they want. But those who have knowledge, do understand that certain things on stage can be abused and misused. And if such topics are used just for laughter, the humor will not stand the test of time.»
«Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.»
«O, she misused me past the endurance of a block.»