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• I like cats.... When I meet a cat, I say, "Poor Pussy!" and stoop down and tickle the side of its head; and the cat sticks up its tail in a rigid, cast-iron manner, arches its back, and wipes its nose up against my trousers; and all is gentleness and peace.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Cat, Iron, Pussy

  Jerome K. Jerome (2010). “Three Men in a Boat”, Giunti Editore

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• Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

  John Milton

  Virtue, Chimes, Ifs

  1634 Comus, A Mask, l.1017-22.

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• Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wise, Men, Fool

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• A Christian in his surroundings should encourage everyone to be better, instead of being the one who stoops to be like everyone else.

  Max Lucado

  Christian, Surroundings, Should

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• The British media is sinking down, as the American news media has lowered the bar for all of humanity. British news media is definitely trying to stoop down to that level. Everyone is stooping to the lowest common denominator.

  John Oliver

  Media, Humanity, Trying

  Interview with Jason Zabel, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2011.

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• The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Children, Life Lesson, Humble

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.226, Rajpal & Sons

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• Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul; then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler, thy helmet and crown; then shall thy soul walk upright, nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an abuse because the hand which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Honesty, Lying, Hands

  Benjamin Franklin (1824). “The Works with His Life /Franklin, Benjamin”, p.149

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• To sit on the front steps — whether it's a veranda in a small town or a concrete stoop in a big city — and to talk to our neighborhoods is infinitely more important than to huddle on the living-room lounger and watch a make-believe world in not-quite living color.

  Harvey Milk

  Believe, Color, Cities

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• He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.

  Samuel Pepys

  Pounds, Classroom, Pins

  Samuel Pepys (1858). “Diary and Correspondence: The Diary deciphered by the K. J. Smith from the original Shorthand Ms. in the Pepysian Library. With a life and notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke. In four volumes”, p.341

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• Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to the vulgarity latent in every decision. However grave the matter at hand might be, if one neglected it for long enough, the act of neglect itself would begin to affect the situation, and someone else would emerge as an ally. Such was Count Ayakura's version of political theory.

  Yukio Mishima

  Sweet, Hands, Long

  Yukio Mishima (1990). “Spring Snow”, Vintage

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• All facts prove that the Saenuri Party is a group of traitors who stoop to any infamy to realize its ambition to seize power.

  Park Geun-hye

  Party, Ambition, Groups

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• O never star Was lost; here We all aspire to heaven and there is heaven Above us. If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud, It is but for a time; I press God's lamp Close to my breast; its splendor soon or late Will pierce the gloom. I shall emerge some day.

  Robert Browning

  Stars, Dark, Sea

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• Such ever was love's way: to rise, it stoops.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Way

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.338

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• And I would have, now love is over, An end to all, an end: I cannot, having been your lover Stoop to become your friend!

  Arthur Symons

  Love, Ends, Love Is

  Arthur Symons (1919). “Poems”

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• There are more stars known to exist right now than the total number of all the grains of sand on every beach in the entire world. With those kinds of odds, it would seem downright naive for someone to go to a beach in, say, some out-of-the-way inlet in Baffin Bay, stoop to pick up only one tiny grain of sand, and declare that that grain alone was the only place where life could exist.

  Hugh Downs

  Beach, Stars, Spring

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• Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Deep Thought, He Man

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.372, 谷月社

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• Capture of Nanking Rain and a windstorm rage blue and yellow over Chung the bell mountain as a million peerless troops cross the Great River. The peak is a coiled dragon, the city a crouching tiger more dazzling than before. The sky is spinning and the earth upside down. We are elated yet we must use our courage to chase the hopeless enemy. We must not stoop to fame like the overlord Hsiang Yu. If heaven has feeling it will grow old and watch our seas turn into mulberry fields.

  Mao Zedong

  Courage, Rain, Yellow

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• [I have seen] workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of the body called for while they work. Such are the workers who all day stand or sit, stoop or are bent double, who run or ride or exercise their bodies in all sorts of [excess] ways. ... the harvest of diseases reaped by certain workers ... [from] irregular motions in unnatural postures of the body.

  Bernardino Ramazzini

  Running, Exercise, Science

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• A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.

  William Shakespeare

  Mind, Golden, Caskets

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 7, l. 18

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• Love that goes upward is worship;
  Love that goes outward is affection;
  Love that stoops is grace.

  Donald Barnhouse

  Love, Grace, Affection

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• Enough of dreams! No longer mock
  The burdened hearts of men!
  Not on the cloud, but on the rock
  Build thou thy faith again;
  O range no more the realms of air,
  Stoop to the glen-bound streams;
  Thy hope was all too like despair:
  Enough, enough of dreams.

  Alfred Noyes

  Dream, Heart, Men

  "The Secret Inn: 'The Kingdom is Within You'". Master Mind Magazine, Volume VII, No. 3, p. 99, December 1914.

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• No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up,'

  Stacy Schiff

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

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• Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

  John Milton

  Virtue, Chimes, Teach

  'Comus' (1637) l. 1019

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• We are not sure of sorrow, And joy was never sure; Today will die tomorrow; Time stoops to no man's lure.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Men, Joy, Sorrow

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.250, Delphi Classics

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• In looking for the keys of paradise, a pope may stoop a little; having found them, he should rise again.

  Pope Sixtus V

  Keys, Paradise, May

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