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“The bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty, if ill employed.”

Ifs Turns Ill Nasty Employed Bicycle Cycling

Book:Mercier and Camier

Source: Mercier and Camier

“There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.”

Turns Ill Rhetoric Truth And Beauty

Book:Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

“Except wind stands as it never stood It is an ill wind turns none to good.”

Book:Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry

Source: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry

“Disrespect also can take the form of idealizing you and putting you on a pedestal as a perfect woman or goddess, perhaps treating you like a piece of fine china. The man who worships you in this way is not seeing you; he is seeing his fantasy, and when you fail to live up to that image he may turn nasty. So there may not be much difference between the man who talks down to you and the one who elevates you; both are displaying a failure to respect you as a real human being and bode ill.”

“In late marriage alone lies the compulsion to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity, an institution which is damned ill-suited to a being who with his usual modesty likes to regard himself as the 'image' of God.”

Lying Humanity Turns Religious Late Regard Institutions Remains Ill Likes Usual Modesty Twists Compulsion Disgrace God Image Mein Kampf Twists And Turns

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“Come hither, all ye empty things, Ye bubbles rais'd by breath of Kings; Who float upon the tide of state, Come hither, and behold your fate. Let pride be taught by this rebuke, How very mean a thing's a Duke; From all his ill-got honours flung, Turn'd to that dirt from whence he sprung.”

Mean States Turns Fate Taught Pride Kings Empty Breaths Ill Honour Bubbles Tides Dirt Floats Dukes Sprung Rebuke Very Mean

Book:The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift...

Source: The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift...

“There are moments when you feel trapped, ill at ease. A year later the same feeling can turn out to be the theme of a book.”

Feels Years Book Moments Feelings Turns Ill Ease Theme Trapped

Author:Francoise Sagan