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negligence
«Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves»
Author: Owen Felltham
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corrode, corroded, corrodes, corroding, negligence, resolves, rust
«A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles»
Author: Thomas Sprat
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embitter, embittered, embitters, negligence, originated, trifles, wretchedness
«The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is ... that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.»
Author: Adam Smith
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corrects, customers, effectual, employment, exercised, frauds, negligence, restrains, workman
«The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.»
Author: David Mamet
(Playwright)
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collective, emerge, expresses, innocent of, insuperable, irresistible, Irresistible Force, negligence, nevertheless, popularity, symbolic, thinly, threatened, thwart, thwarted, thwarting, thwarts, translated, unforeseeable, unforeseen, veiled, victorious, wrongdoing, wrongdoings
«When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
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aspiration, damaged, due, due to, negligence, not due, privation, privations, sacrilege, sensibilities, sensibility, suffers, wound
«To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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comforts, die away, negligence, pilgrimage, pilgrimages, The Pilgrimage, throw away, voluntarily, weary
«They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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association, captious, fretful, impatient of, maxims, morose, negligence, nod, practices, tenacious, unlimited