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«Mean spirits under disappointment, like small beer in a thunderstorm, always turn sour»
«Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent»
Author: William Gilmore Simms | About: Obligation | Keywords: obligations, sour
«There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.»
Author: Pearl Bailey (Entertainer) | Keywords: sour, sourest, swallow
«I am sure the grapes are sour.»
Author: Aesop (Author, Fabulist) | Keywords: grapes, sour, sour grapes
«Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: rulers, sour, whoredom
«The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.»
«I have no one to whom I can talk upon such matters. I am all driven inwards, and thought turns sour when one lets it stagnate like that.»
«Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted»
«Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.»
«Music do I hear?Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,When time is broke and no proportion kept!So is it in the music of men's lives.»

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