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looking glass
«A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.»
Author: Henry Fielding
(Novelist, Playwright)
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admitted, beau, beaux, cards, in short, laughs, looking glass, mistress, motions, observe, presence of mind, sigh, sighs, solemnly, The Shadow
«The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion.»
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
(Author, Novelist)
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companion, frown, in turn, jollier, jolly, looking glass, reflection, sourly
«Mind is the Master/power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills/He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.»
Author: James Allen
(Statesman)
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ills, in secret, looking glass, molds, shaping, the Master, wills
«In another moment Alice was through the glass, and had jumped lightly down into the Looking-glass room»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
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Alice, Alice in, get the jump, glass, jumped, jumping up and down, jump on, jump out, jump up, lightly, looking glass, room, The Glass
«Credit is like a looking - glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clean again; but if once cracked can never be repaired»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
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cracked, looking glass, repaired, sullied, sullying, wiped
«May she be granted beauty and yet notBeauty to make a stranger's eye distraught,Or hers before a looking-glass, for such,Being made beautiful overmuch,Consider beauty a sufficient end,Lose natural kindness and maybeThe heart-revealing intimacyThat chooses right, and never find a friend.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
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chooses, distraught, glass eye, Hers, intimacy, looking glass, overmuch