Quotes with teases

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• Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

  ― Agnes Repplier
  American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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• All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.

  ― Charles Baudelaire
  French poet (1821 - 1867)
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• Speak roughly to your little boy, and beat him when he sneezes: he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases.

  ― Lewis Carroll
  British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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• The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

  ― Sarah Orne Jewett
  American novelist, short story writer and poet (1849 - 1909)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• possibilities
• achievements
• approximate
• unsatisfied
• literature
• roughly

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