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subtracts
«Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.»
Author: Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
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ADD, add to, subtract, subtracted, subtracting, subtracts
«Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole»
Author: Leon Battista Alberti
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Beauty
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adjustment, impair, impaired, impairing, impairs, proportionately, subtract, subtracted, subtracting, subtracts
«They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.»
Author: Thomas Brackett Reed
(Politician)
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mouths, subtract, subtracted, subtracting, subtracts, sum
«Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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World
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net, subtract, subtracted, subtracts
«Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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pygmies, Pygmy, subtract, subtracted, subtracting, subtracts, The Giant
«When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning - how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.»
Author: Lord Byron
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Existence
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buttoning, dormouse, downright, infancy, subtract, subtracted, subtracting, subtracts, swill, swilling, unbutton, unbuttoning, vegetation
«Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature -- subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasurers, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. . . . The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
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practically, priceless, subtract, subtracted, subtracting, subtracts, treasurer, treasurers, Treasurer of the, Twenty Five, vitalize, vitalizes, vitalizing