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«The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress»
«We live under the tyranny of various professional groups, and all the 'influence' we could bring to bear on the running of schools, trains or power stations isn't sufficient to move a feather.»
Author: Stephen Vizinczey
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bear on, bring to, bring to bear, feather, trains, train station
«Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.»
«The power of philosophy floats through my head, Light like a feather, Heavy as Led»
«The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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Arguments
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declamation, declamations, empty-headed, feather, guinea, soundest, vacuum, velocities, velocity
«The day is done, and the darkness, Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward, From an eagle in his flight»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
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downward, eagle, falls, feather, flight, in flight, the darkness, The Eagles, The Wings, waft, wafted, wings
«Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.»
«The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Aurora, beast, boys, descending, engines, feather, houses, inflicting, insane, mob, outrage, outraged, outrages, persecutes, prank, pranks, put into action, put out, resembles, ruddier, ruddy, streaming, tar-and-feather, tar, The Beast, the mob, voluntarily, whip
«Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow»
«We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a feather bed»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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despotism, feather, feather bed, translated, translates, translating
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