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Tag Name "Spoil" (221)

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The best way to spoil a good story is by sticking to the facts.
Evan Esar
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The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.
C. S. Lewis
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It is not possible to 'spoil' a child with love and affection...a child needs all the love and affection it can possibly get.
L. Ron Hubbard
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Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite.
Ivan Turgenev
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A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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magic persists without us no matter what we may do to try to spoil it
Charles Bukowski
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Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.
Laozi
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I've no idea where ideas come from and I hope I never find out it would spoil the excitement for me if it turned out I just have a funny little wrinkle on the surface of my brain which makes me think about invisible train platforms.
J. K. Rowling
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If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people think of you and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything God sends you you will be as wretched as you choose.
Charles Kingsley
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One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies.
Abba Louisa Goold Woolson
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He who acts, spoils he who grasps, lets slip.
Laozi
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Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness
Jacqueline Carey
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It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.
Charles Spurgeon
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A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.
Abraham Lincoln
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I spoil a lot of people with my play. If you have three bad games in a seven-year career, people are going to point that out.
LeBron James
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Too many cooks spoil the broth
Jane Austen
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Conscience is like a pet: If you spoil it by too much attention it'll start yipping at the most inopportune times.
Connie Brockway
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We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.
Aeschylus
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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Un auteur ga te tout quand il veut trop bien faire. An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
Jean de La Fontaine
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That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.
Dagobert D. Runes
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I would never judge someone's intrigue with the spoils of fame, because I went through that.
Alanis Morissette
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Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!
Lewis Carroll
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Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper.
Jeremy Collier
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