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• The sweet calm sunshine of October, now
  Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mold
  The pur0ple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough
  drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold.

  William C. Bryant

  Sweet, Fall, Sunshine

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• There's nothing in this world can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste That it yields nought but shame and bitterness.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Sweet, Men

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Twelfth-night. Winter's tale. Macbeth. King John”, p.519

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• During the war one accepted indifferent after-dinner coffee as a necessity, but when, after the war, one sought to find the coffee remembered of days gone by, one found disappointment. I was looking for the rich after-dinner coffee that literally curdled cream if anyone was foolish enough to spoil it with cream.

  Constance Spry

  Disappointment, War, Coffee

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• Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Wise, Intelligent, Men

  Desiderius Erasmus, Betty Radice (1990). “Praise of Folly”

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• Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too.

  Confucius

  Love, Philosophy, Educational

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• Though I am an old horse, and have seen and heard a great deal, I never yet could make out why men are so fond of this sport; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields, and all for a hare, or a fox, or a stag, that they could get more easily some other way; but we are only horses, and don't know.

  Anna Sewell

  Sports, Hurt, Horse

  Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.6, Mind Melodies

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• Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.

  Erving Goffman

  Identity, Normal, Reactions

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• There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.

  Georges Pompidou

  Men, Gambling, Listening

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• I do miss having someone to spoil, somebody that you can just sit with for a bit.

  Harry Styles

  Missing, Bits

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• One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Succeed

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• All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.

  William Penn

  Men, Mind, He Man

  "Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims".

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• If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  People, Giving, Vices

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Across The Plains”, p.139, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Whatever form it takes, camping is earthy, soul enriching and character building, and there can be few such satisfying moments as having your tent pitched and the smoke rising from your campfire as the golden sun sets on the horizon--even if it's just for a fleeting moment before the rain spoils everything.

  Pippa Middleton

  Rain, Character, Soul

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• Beautiful things spoil nothing.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Beautiful, Beautiful Things

  Gustave Flaubert (2015). “The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs and Letters: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Flaubert by Guy de Maupassant, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, D.H. Lawrence”, p.251, e-artnow

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• He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.

  Laozi

  Wisdom, Slips

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• Allies never trust each other, but that doesn't spoil their effectiveness.

  Ayn Rand

  Trust, Effectiveness, Allies

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.266, Penguin

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• Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Party, Intellectual, Intelligence

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• If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people think of you; and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch; you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything God sends you; you will be as wretched as you choose.

  Charles Kingsley

  Respect, Thinking, People

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• Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.

  William Penn

  Men, Giving, Voting

  Thomas Clarkson, William Penn (1827). “Memoirs of the private and public life of William Penn: who settled the state of Pennsylvania, and founded the city of Philadelphia”, p.117

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• Mrs. Pang was once a nanny for me, and she spoils me the way I imagined kindhearted women would spoil an orphan, loving me for whom I am, exactly the opposite of my mother, whose love I have to earn with great effort and with little success.

  Yiyun Li

  Mother, Opposites, Effort

  Yiyun Li (2007). “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories”, p.151, Random House

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• What a day for the Tea Party people. Did you see that? America's parks and fairgrounds were lost in a sea of man-boobs. They were venting their anger and rage against taxes, which, of course, in most cases for them went down. Protesting their taxes went down, but you know, why let the truth spoil a perfectly good Klan rally.

  Bill Maher

  Party, Men, Perfectly Good

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• One cannot create happiness with beautiful objects, but one can spoil quite a lot of happiness with bad ones

  Finn Juhl

  Beautiful, Beautiful Objects, Objects

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• There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn't spoil the sky, or the rain or the land

  Paul McCartney

  Rain, Future, Land

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• What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!... Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball's immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Wall, Reading

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• I spoil a lot of people with my play.

  LeBron James

  Nba, Play, People

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