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aped
«Only the mature spirit lives with the proud knowledge that he is a little lower than the angels rather than a little higher than the apes»
Author: Dorothy Carnegie
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aped, apes, aping, in low spirits, lower, low spirits, mature, The Angels
«Laughing at ourselves is possible when we are able to see humanity as it is - a little lower than the angels and at times only slightly higher than the apes»
Author: Tom Mullen
| About:
Laughter
| Keywords:
aped, apes, at times, laughing, lower, slightly, The Angels
«It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.»
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
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aped, apes, aping, base, disturbs, mischievous, ravenous, savage, selfish, The Vulture, unjust, vulture, wolves
«At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing.»
«OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with the grin that apes a smile. Being a blind faith, it is inaccessible to the light of disproof --an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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acceptably, accustom, accustomed, aped, apes, aping, bad faith, Blind Faith, contagious, disorder, disproof, doctrine, Everything is Beautiful, expound, expounded, expounding, expounds, fortunately, grin, hereditary, inaccessible, including, mischance, optimism, tenacity, treatment, yielding
«It's interesting to think that my ancestors used to live in the trees, like apes, until finally they got the nerve to head out onto the plains, where some were probably hit by cars»
«They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion -- not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
aggrandizement, aped, aping, bondage, evasion, evasions, improvidence, intemperance, laziness, vices