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• In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable to choke one, here one never receives a favour until he loses another instead, here every additional day in one's life is a day reduced from the total span of his existence, when death is the natural outcome of life, how can we expect immortality.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Men, Target, World

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• When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.

  Agnes Repplier

  Kindness, Milk, Sour

  Agnes Repplier (1932). “To Think of Tea!”

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• What Americans call cross-ventilation, the English call draughts.

  Hermione Gingold

  England, Crosses, Ventilation

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• While briskly to each patriot lip
  Walks eager round the inspiring flip;
  Delicious draught, whose pow'rs inherit
  The quintessence of public spirit!

  John Trumbull

  Drinking, Flip, Lips

  John Trumbull (1839). “M'Fingal: a modern epic poem, in four cantos”, p.56

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• wit, wit! - I look upon it always as a draught of air; it cools indeed, but one gets a stiff neck from it.

  Katharina Elisabeth Goethe

  Air, Looks, Necks

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• I love short stories - reading and writing them. The best short stories distill all the potency of a novel into a small but heady draught. They are perfect reading material for the bus or train or for a lunchtime break. Everything extraneous has been strained off by the author. The best short stories pack the heft of any novel, yet resonate like poetry.

  Ian Rankin

  Short Love, Reading, Writing

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• A simple woman down in Tyngsborough, at whose house I once stopped to get a draught of water, when I said, recognizing the bucket, that I had stopped there nine years before for the same purpose, asked if I was not a traveler, supposing that I had been traveling ever since, and had now come round again.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Simple, Years, Supposing That

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.665, Simon and Schuster

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• Righteousness is a fuel that, when it has some pitch in it of ambitious rivalry and the damper's left open to envy's draught, makes a hot enough fire to cook somebody's goose in quite a hurry.

  Ardyth Kennelly

  Fire, Envy, Ambitious

  Ardyth Kennelly (1956). “Marry Me, Carry Me”

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• There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Character, Men, Skeletons

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• At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye; With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away my fers. And when I sawgh my fers awaye, Allas! I kouthe no lenger playe.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Queens, Pieces, Chess

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• The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends its effects wider, as a pestilence that taints the air is more destructive than poison infused in a draught, but because it is committed with cool deliberation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Air, Poison

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.123

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• Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to poetry after the solemn and ceremonious literary perfections of the eighteenth century? They have brought back to the pictorial art a new draught of joie de vivre; and the beauty of their work is instinct with gaiety, and floats in sparkling air. I do not expect these masters would particularly appreciate my defence, but I must avow an increasing attraction to their work.

  Winston Churchill

  Art, Air, Appreciate

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• What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wall, House, Graffiti

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• If the October days were a cordial like the sub-acids of fruit, these are a tonic like the wine of iron. Drink deep or be careful how you taste this December vintage. The first sip may chill, but a full draught warms and invigorates.

  John Burroughs

  Wine, Winter, Vintage

  John Burroughs, Farida Anna Wiley (1997). “John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist”, p.122, Courier Corporation

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• The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Reflection, Games, Chess

  Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Best of Poe”, p.28, Prestwick House Inc

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• When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty.

  Richard Lovelace

  Grief, Wine, Liberty

  'To Althea, From Prison'

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• I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Said, Existence

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.183, Harvard University Press

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• There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG, The Reflections of Lichtenberg We become familiar with the outsides of men, as with the outsides of houses, and think we know them, while we are ignorant of so much that is passing within them.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Character, Reflection, Men

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• I hurt with the insatiate longing, until I feel that there will never be any relief until I take a long, deep, wild draught on your lips.

  Warren G. Harding

  Hurt, Long, Lips

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• Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.

  Laurence Sterne

  Art, Slavery, Bitterness

  Laurence Sterne, John Hall-Stevenson (1792). “A Sentimental Journey: Through France and Italy”, p.97

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• He lay back for a little in his bed thinking about the smells of food . . . of the intoxicating breath of bakeries and dullness of buns. . . . He planned dinners, of enchanting aromatic foods . . . endless dinners, in which one could alternate flavour with flavour from sunset to dawn without satiety, while one breathed great draughts of the bouquet of old brandy.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Sunset, Thinking, Smell

  EVELYN WAUGH (1958). “VILE BODIES & BLACK MISCHIEF”

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• Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.

  John Gay

  Love, Hate, Alcohol

  John Gay (2013). “The Beggar's Opera and Polly”, p.55, OUP Oxford

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• I believe that nothing completely satisfies an imaginative writer but copious and continuous draughts of unmitigated praise, always provided it is accompanied by a large and increasing sale of his works.

  Frederick Locker-Lampson

  Believe, Praise, Imaginative

  Frederick Locker-Lampson (1895). “My Confidences: An Autobiographical Sketch Addressed to My Descendants”

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• Chess is far too complex to be definitively solved with any technology we can conceive of today. However, our looked-down-upon cousin, checkers, or draughts, suffered this fate quite recently thanks to the work of Jonathan Schaeffer at the University of Alberta and his unbeatable program Chinook.

  Garry Kasparov

  Cousin, Fate, Technology

  "Garry Kasparov On ‘Chess Metaphors’: The Chess Master And The Computer" by Garry Kasparov, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2010.

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• The soul that companies with virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught, sweet, rich and generous of its store, that injures not, neither destroys.

  Epictetus

  Sweet, Soul, Rich

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.190, Enhanced Media Publishing

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