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Will you see the players well bestowed? Do you hear, let them
be well used, for they are the abstracts and brief chronicles o ...
Shakespeare
actors | acting | publicity | records
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The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors, so much mon ...
Charles Baudelaire
mediocrity | art | artists
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Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
Ambrose Bierce
debt
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Pearl S. Buck
praise
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The great, the rich, the powerful, too often bestow their favours upon their inferiors in the manner they bestow their scraps upon ...
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th Earl
rich, the | charity | gratitude
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It breedeth no small offence and scandal to see and consider upon the one part the curiosity and cost bestowed by all sorts of men ...
Elizabeth I
church | religion
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There comes a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; t ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson
work | individualism
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Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason--you could reckon the rati ...
Desiderius Erasmus
passion
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Where all the beauties that those ashes owed
Are now bestowed?
Edward Herbert
mourning
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If God bestowed immortality on every man then when he made him, and he made many to whom he never purposed to give his saving grac ...
Thomas Hobbes
hell | mercy | immortality
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