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«Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.»
«I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples.»
Author: John Updike
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«Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking»
Author: Oliver Cromwell
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«I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience -- it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.»
Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
(Orator, Playwright, Politician)
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beget, description, eastern, eastern hemisphere, four o clock, gilding, hemisphere, hemispheres, Rising Sun, striking, The Rising
«If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.»
«I stood on the bridge at midnight, / As the clocks were striking the hour.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
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bridge, midnight, stood, striking, The Bridge, The Clocks
«No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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affords, conviction, library, public libraries, public library, Public place, striking, vanity