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«Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying»
«Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.»
Author: Margaret Oliphant
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accompaniment, embarrassment, embarrassments, on the whole, perplexities, perplexity, The Embarrassment, uninteresting
«On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time»
«On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(Judge, Jurist)
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Affirmed, affirming, affirms, deny, on the side, on the whole, saints, The Saints, unregenerate
«Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.»
«The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everyone makes everything so easy for everybody else, that there is almost nothing to resist at all.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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English, English people, Everything to Everyone, nicest, on the whole, resist, the English
«The important question is not what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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Wonder
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on the whole, render, scattered
«On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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American state, dinners, Her husband, idle, on the whole, partly
«The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
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actual, derived, low quality, on the whole, quantity
«The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?»
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