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«It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking; if your own tongue must praise you»
Author: Matthew Hale | About: Reputation | Keywords: praise, Praise You, sank, sinking, sink in
«Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.»
«It is cheering to see that the rats are still around - the ship is not sinking»
Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer) | Keywords: cheering, rats, ship, sinking
«My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire»
Author: James Joyce | About: Words | Keywords: polished, quagmire, sinking
«A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.»
«In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.»
«Rats desert a sinking ship.»
Author: Proverb | Keywords: desert, rats, sinking
«Remembering Him in meditation, sinking stones are made to float.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib | Keywords: float, sinking
«No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life.»
«I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.»

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