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«Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.»
Author: Stanley Horowitz
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autumn, etch, etched, etching, etchings, mosaic, oil, oil painting, summer, watercolor, winter
«Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Truth
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alleviated, alleviates, bear up, falsehood, oil, Truth Hurts
«You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.»
«We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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«Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.»
«Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.»
«When a good bottle of Scotch cost more than a barrel of oil, you're in trouble»
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