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Tag Name "Plain" (704)

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Plain as a pike-staff.
Alain-Rene Lesage
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Plain spoken people get most of the recognition because folks are afraid of them.
Kin Hubbard
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Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Plain fresh bread, its crust shatteringly crisp. Sweet cold butter. There is magic in the way they come together in your mouth to make a single perfect bite.
Ruth Reichl
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Plain and not honest is too harsh a style.
William Shakespeare
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Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.
Mark Twain
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
Katharine Hepburn
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Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God either, and it is an easily observable fact that for countless numbers of persons the change from no-faith to faith makes no actual difference in the life.
Kevin DeYoung
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Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.
George Eliot
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Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
Oscar Wilde
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Plain as a nose in a man's face.
Francois Rabelais
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Plain living and high thinking are no more.
William Wordsworth
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Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.
William Wordsworth
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Plain lies are dangerous.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.
Max Frisch
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To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
Lucretius
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Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at.
Larry McMurtry
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There is no Constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong - deadly wrong - to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness is the perfect companion to Mindfulness in Plain English. Written with the thoroughness and the masterful simplicity so characteristic of his teaching, Bhante Gunaratana presents essential guidelines for turning the Buddha's teachings on the Eightfold Path into living wisdom.
Larry Rosenberg
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For me, a plain baked potato is the most delicious one....It is soothing and enough.
M. F. K. Fisher
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It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Religion holds a man back from the path, prevents his stepping forward, for various very plain reasons. First, it makes the vital mistake of distinguishing between good and evil.
Mabel Collins
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I was just teasing, I say. I myself don't like to eat plain butter, but hey, it's a free world.
Lauren Myracle
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