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“A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.”

Long Hands Mother Loss Leafs Plight Figs Prudes

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Knowest thou not that kings have long hands? [Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?]”

Long Hands Kings Royalty

Author:Ovid

“Come, evening, once again, season of peace; Return, sweet evening, and continue long! Methinks I see thee in the streaky west, With matron step, slow moving, while the night Treads on thy sweeping train; one hand employ'd In letting fall the curtain of repose On bird and beast, the other charged for man With sweet oblivion of the cares of day.”

Source: Poems ... With an introductory essay by James Montgomery. [With plates.]

“If the elbow had been placed closer to the hand, the forearm would have been too short to bring the glass to the mouth; and if it had been closer to the shoulder, the forearm would have been so long that it would have carried the glass beyond the mouth.”

Ifs Long Has Beens Hands Food Mouths Cooking Glasses Shoulders Culinary Too Short Elbows

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“A long tongue is a signe of a short hand. [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.]”

Long Hands Tongue

Book:The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

“My vocation is to write and I have known this for a long time. I hope I won't be misunderstood; I know nothing about the value of the things I am able to write. I know that writing is my vocation. When I sit down to write I feel extraordinarily at ease, and I move in an element which, it seems to me, I know extraordinarily well; I use tools that are familiar to me and they fit snugly in my hands. But when I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.”

Knows Feels Writing Wells Children Long Country Stories Use Hands Seems Able Moving Values Known Tree Streets Wall Fit Walking Elements Long Time Tools Familiar Ease Vocation Misunderstood

Author:Natalia Ginzburg

“There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.”

“Virtue, without the graces, is like a rich diamond unpolished--it hardly looks better than a common pebble; but when the hand of the master rubs off the roughness, and forms the sides into a thousand brilliant surfaces, it is then that we acknowledge its worth, admire its beauty, and long to wear it in our bosoms.”

Looks Long Hands Form Sides Common Virtue Rich Grace Masters Thousand Surface Brilliant Admire Acknowledge Diamond Bosoms Pebbles Roughness

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“The so-called new Russian man is characterized mainly by his complete exhaustion. You may find yourself wondering if he has the strength to enjoy his new-found freedom. He is like a long-distance runner who, on reaching the finishing line, is incapable even of raising his hands in a gesture of victory.”

Ifs Men May Long Hands Found Enjoy Lines Wonder Victory Distance Reaching Finding Yourself Gestures Incapable Runners Finishing Exhaustion Long Distance Distance Runner

Author:Ryszard Kapuscinski

“Religions are different roads converging on the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? I believe that all religions of the world are true more or less. I say "more or less" because I believe that everything the human hand touches, by reason of the very fact that human beings are imperfect, becomes imperfect.”

World Believe Humans Long Doe Different Matter Reason Facts Hands I Believe Goal Human Beings Imperfect Does It Matter Human Hands Different Roads

Book:The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts