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«Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.»
Author: Kofi Busia | About: Diplomacy | Keywords: deceiving, diplomacy, nearly
«A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.»
Author: Pam Brown | About: Cats | Keywords: curled, curled up, curling, curls, curl up, hopes, knee, last-minute, maintain, nearly, position, settle, settle down, somnolence, upright
«Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: action, louder, more often than not, nearly, often, oftenest, speaking in, speaks, speaks in, speak up, spoken word, Than, words
«[To simplify] is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without -- and yet preserve the spirit of the whole.»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather (Author) | Keywords: artistic, conventions, detail, nearly, preserve, simplified, simplifies, simplify, simplifying, the Convention, the conventions
«By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart»
Author: Confucius | Keywords: alike, apart, by nature, get to, nearly, practice, wide, widest
«Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.»
Author: Dave Barry (Humorist, Writer) | About: Science | Keywords: accidents, contributed, contributing, factor, factor in, falling, gravity, involving, nearly, objects, percent
«In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good to their fellow men»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero (Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer) | Keywords: approach, fellow, gods, nearly, The Fellows, the gods
«In nothing do men approach so nearly to the Gods, as in giving health to men.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero (Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer) | About: God, Health, Mankind | Keywords: approach, nearly, the gods
«For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfo»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson (Author, Essayist, Poet) | About: Travel | Keywords: affair, come down, feather, feather bed, globe, globes, Globe and, granite, hitch, hitched, hitches, hitching, nearly, sake, The Globe
«In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson (Author, President) | About: Truth | Keywords: artificial, covers, equivalent, good-humored, good humor, habitual, in truth, nearly, politeness, rendering, substitute, The Natural
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