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«What an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home, and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile attempt to recapture the comforts that you wouldn't have lost if you hadn't left home in the first place.»
Author: Bill Bryson (Writer) | Keywords: abandoning, comforts, eagerly, expend, expended, expending, expends, futile, home in, in the first place, landing place, largely, odd, quantities, recapture, recaptured, Strange Land, tourism, vast
«Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.»
Author: Frederick Saunders | Keywords: beneficial, injurious, in large quantities, laudanum, medicines, poisonous, quantities
«Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.»
Author: Lord Dunsany | Keywords: beneficial, in large quantities, quantities, too large, whiskey
«There are quantities of human faces, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke | Keywords: faces, For each, for each person, quantities, several
«Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess»
Author: Walter Savage Landor (Writer) | About: Truth | Keywords: attended, calms, heats, in large quantities, juice, juices, poppies, poppy, quantities
«Who, for false quantities, was whipped at school.»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: quantities
«I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Discovery | Keywords: alcohol, discovery, effect, intoxication, produces, quantities, sufficient
«I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke | Keywords: for each person, quantities
«Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | About: Parliament | Keywords: parliament, quantities, unlimited
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