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“Watch me closely - only one can spoil it.”

“Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning.”

Book Lying Easy Chance Lucky Library Valuable Wit Shops Buried Quotations Spoil

Book:A Dictionary Of The English Language; In Which The Words Are Deduced From Their Originals; And Illustrated In Their Different Significations, By Examples From The Best Writers: Together With A History of the Language, and an English Grammar

Source: A Dictionary Of The English Language; In Which The Words Are Deduced From Their Originals; And Illustrated In Their Different Significations, By Examples From The Best Writers: Together With A History of the Language, and an English Grammar

“Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!”

Ifs Giving Writing Matter Style Lays Appetite Thick Spoil Peppers Zest Epithet

Book:Jabberwocky and Other Poems

Source: Jabberwocky and Other Poems

“A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.”

Men Winning Marriage Wife Worthless Spoil Good Wife Plentiful

Book:Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus

Source: Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus

“Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.”

Has Beens Might Energy Deals Effort Teaching Waste Might Have Been Spoil

Book:THE ART OF TEACHING

Source: THE ART OF TEACHING

“One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it.”

Littles Order Bits Painting Little Bit Spoil Finishing

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they're raising them. You can't push your way into areas where you shouldn't be saying anything. You have to always remember they're not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death - then hand them back.”

Way Play Hands Kids Remember Areas Spoil

Author:Billy Crystal

“No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.”

Desire Nations Spoil

Book:Addresses on International Subjects

Source: Addresses on International Subjects

“Up to the age of five, children should be given a lot of love. From the age of five to fifteen they should be brought up under strict discipline especially regarding their study. It is at that time that life's foundation is formed. Love without discipline will only spoil them. Above the age of fifteen children should be given maximum love otherwise they may go astray.”

Should May Children Kids Age Given Study Five Discipline Foundation Fifteen Strict Maximum Spoil

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me, and give him sugar and plums, thereby, I should make him worse, yea should quite spoil him.”

Ifs Giving Should Littles Education Son Tables Sugar Spoil Whips Plums If Then

Book:Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther

Source: Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther

“The victor belongs to the spoils.”

Literature Spoil

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all.”

Hate My Own Kissing Approach I Hate Spoil Public Life Prospects

Author:Alexander Downer

“I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.”

Limitation Interpretation Listeners Spoil

Author:David Gilmour

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