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• Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Kings, Winter

  Henry David Thoreau (2008). “Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings: Authoritative Texts, Journal, Reviews and Posthumous Assessments, Criticism”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• You haven't yet seen me be rude. When I am it's unmistakable. - Michelle Maxwell.

  David Baldacci

  Maxwell, Havens

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• When did the cell phone become a license to be rude? And why must I be subjected to your personal conversations?

  Jen Lancaster

  Cells, Phones, Cell Phone

  Jen Lancaster (2007). “Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why it Often Sucks in the City, or Who are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me?”, p.39, Penguin

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• Your Great-Aunt Muriel doesn't agree, I just met her upstairs while she was giving Fleur the tiara. "She said 'Oh dear, is this the muggle born?' and then, 'Bad posture, skinny ankles.'" Don't take it personally, she's rude to everyone," said Ron. "Talking about Muriel?" inquired George, reemerging from the marquee with Fred. "Yeah, she's just told me my ears are lopsided. Old bat.

  J. K. Rowling

  Aunt, Talking, Giving

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• You seem to know a lot about it," she said. "And you do subtleties." "Yeah. Like I've always wanted to destroy the Nine Worlds while committing suicide." "Well, there's no need to be rude," protested Sif.

  Joanne Harris

  Suicide, Needs, World

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• Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.

  Clive James

  Sports, Balls, Chess

  Clive James (2013). “Snakecharmers In Texas”, p.231, Pan Macmillan

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• I dont ever want to do anything mediocre. I hear the music in the charts and I dont mean to be rude, but those people have no soul. Learning from music is like eating a meal - you have to pace yourself. You cant take everything from it all at once. I want to be different, definitely. Im not a one trick pony. Im at least a five-trick pony.

  Amy Winehouse

  Mean, People, Soul

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• On the pavement
  of my trampled soul
  the steps of madmen
  weave the prints of rude crude words.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Soul, Pavement, Steps

  Vladimir Mayakovsky (1975). “Klop, Stikhi, Poėmy”, p.53, Indiana University Press

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• Meanwhile, Will had begun cutting his toast into strips and was making rude pictographs out of them. Oh, that looks rather like a ...- , Jem began.

  Cassandra Clare

  Cutting, Looks, Jem

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• Every thought which enters the mind, every word we utter, every deed we perform, makes its impression upon the inmost fiber of our being and the result of these impressions is our character. The study of books, of music, or of the fine arts is not essential to a lofty character. It rests with the worker whether a rude piece of marble shall be squared into a horse-block or carved into an Apollo, a Psyche, or a Venus di Milo. It is yours, if you choose, to develop a spiritual form more beautiful than any of these, instinct with immortal life, refulgent with all the glory of character.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Horse

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.481, e-artnow

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• In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame -- not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements . Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the ''haves.

  Gilbert Adair

  New York, Space, Energy

  Gilbert Adair (1986). “Myths & memories”, HarperCollins

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• Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.

  O. Henry

  Rudeness, Should

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.1144, Delphi Classics

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• Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of life disappear among graceful women and poetical men; they are the most deceptive beings in creation; distrust and doubt cannot stand before them; they create what they imagine; if they do not lie to others, they do to their own hearts; for illusion is their element, fiction their vocation, and pleasures in appearance their happiness. Beware of grace in woman, and poetry in man -- weapons the more dangerous because the least dreaded!

  Marquis de Custine

  Lying, Heart, Men

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• I don't think I'm really a rude person, but now I see myself on television, I think, 'Oh, God, that is a bit strong.' And I wonder if I've always been like that and I haven't been aware of it.

  Clive Anderson

  Strong, Thinking, Television

  "So, Clive, why did it all go wrong?" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2001.

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• I don't watch the movies I'm in - ever. Sometimes I keep pictures, but that's it. I used to watch my movies, because I didn't want to be rude to the people making them, but I stopped a few years ago. I think it's pretty common among actors. It's like listening to your own voice, but multiplied by a million.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Thinking, Voice, Years

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• Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Fate, Sea, Forever

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1873). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman”, p.199

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• Proved right should be capable of being vindicated by right means as against the rude i.e. sanguinary means. Man may and should shed his own blood for establishing what he considers to be his right. He may not shed the blood of his opponent who disputes his 'right'.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Men, Blood

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Spiritual, Art

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.163

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• By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
  Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
  Here once the embattled farmers stood,
  And fired the shot heard round the world.
  The foe long since in silence slept;
  Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;
  And Time the ruined bridge has swept
  Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.
  On this green bank, by this soft stream,
  We set to-day a votive stone;
  That memory may their deed redeem,
  When, like our sires, our sons are gone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Spring, Sleep

  "Concord Hymn" l. 1 (1837)

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• The mind of the scholar, if you would have it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. It is better that his armor should be somewhat bruised by rude encounters even, than hang forever rusting on the wall.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wall, Knowledge, Forever

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1866). “Hyperion”, p.79

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• The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Good Man, Sage, Bears

  Solomon ben Judah Ibn Gabirol, Benjamin Henry Ascher (1859). “A Choice of Pearls: Embracing a Collection of the Most Genuine Ethical Sentences, Maxims and Salutary Reflections”, p.145

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• The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible and inhuman. The rude, fierce settler who drives the savage from the land lays all civilized mankind under a debt to him. ...[I]t is of incalculable importance that America, Australia, and Siberia should pass out of the hands of their red, black, and yellow aboriginal owners, and become the heritage of the dominant world races.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Land, Yellow

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• The way one was brought up isn't an excuse for rude behavior.

  Judith Martin

  Women, Way, Excuse

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• There are always proper responses, even to rude questions.

  Judith Martin

  Women, Response

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• What a rude Lump our World is that we are so apt to dote upon.

  Thomas Burnet

  Our World, World, Lumps

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