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• Salt represents the civilized: it requires know-how to get it, and a sophisticated combination of cooking and spoilt, jaded appetites to need it.

  Margaret Visser

  Cooking, Needs, Salt

  Margaret Visser (2010). “Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea”, p.76, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Spoilt is a euphemism for loved.

  James Nesbitt

  Euphemism

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• I've been so lucky to have my mum and dad because they've worked to give my brother and I everything. We're not spoilt children.

  Amy Childs

  Brother, Children, Dad

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.

  Honore de Balzac

  Inferiority, Helping, Modesty

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.202, The Floating Press

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• Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype is its apotheosis. A ritualized gathering of connoiseurs and the spoilt at a spotlit parade of snazzy pulchritude, it is an industrialized version of the pagan festivals of renewal. At the end of each seasonal display, a priesthood is enjoined to carry news of the omens to the masses.

  Stephen Bayley

  Fashion, Hype, Gathering

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• Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.

  Alain de Botton

  Gratitude, Grateful, Age

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• Photography is Photography; And in it's purity and innocence is far too uniquely, valuable and beautiful to be spoilt by making it imitate something else.

  Frederick H. Evans

  Beautiful, Photography, Purity And Innocence

  Frederick H. Evans, Anne Hammond (1992). “Frederick H. Evans: selected texts and bibliography”

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• God created Adam master and lord of living creatures, but Eve spoilt all, when she persuaded him to set himself above God's will. 'Tis you women, with your tricks and artifices, that lead men into error.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Errors, Lord

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.300

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• I know, I'm like a kid. Maybe I was a bit too spoilt growing up. Everything just came like I wanted it to.

  Asafa Powell

  Growing Up, Kids, Wanted

  "Asafa Powell says it is time to step out of Usain Bolt's shadow". Interview With Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2011.

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• Yes, I know,’ she said in answer to the unasked, for there was no time for explanations. ‘Yes. My face is spoilt.’ Grandible’s jowl wobbled and creased. Then, for the first time that Neverfell could remember, he changed to a Face she had never seen before, a frown more ferocious and alarming than either of the others. ‘Who the shambles told you that?’ he barked. ‘Spoilt? I’ll spoil them.’ He took hold of her chin and examined her. ‘A bit sadder, maybe. A bit wiser. But nothing rotten. You’re just growing yourself a rind at last. Still a good cheese.

  Frances Hardinge

  Rotten, Answers, Growing

  Frances Hardinge (2012). “A Face Like Glass”, p.307, Pan Macmillan

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• By the time the child can draw more that scribble, by the age of four or five years, an already well-formed body of conceptual knowledge formulated in language dominates his memory and controls his graphic work. Drawings are graphic accounts of essentially verbal processes. As an essentially verbal education gains control, the child abandons his graphic efforts and relies almost entirely on words. Language has first spoilt drawing and then swallowed it up completely.

  Karl Buhler

  Children, Memories, Years

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• The only man who wasn't spoilt by being lionized was Daniel.

  Herbert Beerbohm Tree

  Men, Idols

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• It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went away; in any case, they were partly to blame. Why did it happen so? She herself never changed; when she loved anyone, it was for life. She could not understand desertion; it was something so huge, so monstrous that the notion of it made her little heart break.

  Emile Zola

  Heart, Loving Life, People

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• I do miss Glasgow but Malibu is home now. I love it here and when I do go back to Scotland it takes me a bit of time to acclimatise. I am a spoilt so-and-so. I live in the mountains of Malibu in the most gorgeous house and I phone my mum every day and tell her that I have got bad news - that it is only 70 degrees here.

  Tommy Flanagan

  Home, Phones, Scotland

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.

  Iain Glen

  Actors, Percentages, Ifs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I knew I was breaking about a dozen laws but I guess I had different attitudes to stuff like that since the war. Laws were for the stupid the immature the irresponsible. The inflexible and the narrow-minded. The prejudiced. The obsessive. The lazy and careless and selfish and spoilt. The violent.

  John Marsden

  Attitude, Selfish, War

  John Marsden (2010). “While I Live: The Ellie Chronicles 1: The Ellie Chronicles”, p.60, Pan Australia

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• Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around the castle. Whenever I did, it seemed so insipid and insubstantial that I flew into a rage and hurled it at the wall after reading the first few sentences. I was spoilt for any other form of literature, and the mental torment I endured was comparable to the agony of unrequited love compounded by the withdrawal symptoms associated with a severe addiction.

  Walter Moers

  Love, Wall, Book

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• The earth doesn't belong to anyone. It is the land upon which all of us are to live for many years, ploughing, reaping and destroying. You are always a guest on this earth and have the austerity of a guest. Austerity is far deeper than owning only a few things. The very word austerity has been spoilt by the monks, by the sannyasis, by the hermits. Sitting on that high hill alone in the solitude of many things, many rocks and little animals and ants, that word has no meaning.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Animal, Rocks

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• We are being spoilt in Aladdin's cave today, and each goal seemingly better than the last.

  Ray Hudson

  Goal, Caves, Today

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• I have seen some whose consciences, owing undoubtedly to former indulgence, had grown to be as irritable as spoilt children, and at length gave them no peace. They did not know when to swallow their cud, and their lives of course yielded no milk.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Children, Anger, Guilt

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.96, Penguin

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• My mum and dad ran a family cafe in Sligo for 35 years and worked long hours. We grew up in a very hard-working family and had a lovely atmosphere, as we lived above the restaurant. It definitely made me want to work hard, whatever I chose to do. As the baby of seven kids, I was definitely a bit spoilt.

  Shane Filan

  Baby, Dad, Kids

  "Westlife singer Shane Filan on life after his £18m bankruptcy". Interview with Lorraine McBride, www.telegraph.co.uk. August 19, 2013.

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• Actresses are so spoilt - we have someone who does our hair for us on set, so we don't know how to do it ourselves in real life. I know how to wash my hair and brush my teeth, but that's about it!

  Clemence Poesy

  Real, Hair, Teeth

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• Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Pleasure

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

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• My temper is not spoilt. I am absolutely non-homicidal. Nor do I ever attack unless I have been attacked first, and then Heaven have mercy upon the attacker, because I don't! I just sharpen my wits on a wooden head as a cat sharpens its claws on the wood legs of a table.

  Edith Sitwell

  Cat, Heaven, Firsts

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• I really make sure that my girls understand the importance of education. I don't want them to be spoilt and only know private-school kids. I want them to behave well by example. I believe if you are nice to people, children will follow. Likewise, if you are rude to people, children will follow.

  Wendi Deng Murdoch

  Girl, Children, Nice

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