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All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.
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Although she herself was ill enough to justify being in bed had been a person weak-minded enough to give up, Rose Sawyer could see that her brother, the Reverend Samuel Sayer, was far more ill.
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American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.
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Among all my patients in the second half of life... every one of them fell ill because he had lost what the living religions of every age have given their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.
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An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
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As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.
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Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill living.
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Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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But when mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill!Source: Rape of the Lock (1712) Canto III, 125 -
Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
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For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.
Source: De Consolatione Philosophia Book 2, prose 4 -
For many Americans, including many who are employed, going to the doctor when they fall ill or become injured may not be an option because of the absence of health insurance.
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For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
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Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
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Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
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