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1 jast think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
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Admiration spoils all from infancy. Ah! How well said! Ah! How well done! How well-behaved he is! etc.
Pensees (1669) -
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
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Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
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I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
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If kept dry, a chocolate with a high cacao content, I've discovered, rarely spoils.
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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.
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Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
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The man that hath no music in himself; nor is not move with concord of sweet sounds; is fit for treasons stratagems, and spoils.
The merchant of Venice (1597) -
Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.
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Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
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While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
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Wit. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
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