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«Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.»
«Morning is the best of all times in the garden. The sun is not yet hot. Sweet vapors rise from the earth. Night dew clings to the soil and makes plants glisten. Birds call to one another. Bees are already at work.»
«?The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.?»
«Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility.»
«For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: The Vapors, vapor, vapors
«BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.The man who taketh a steam bath He loseth all the skin he hath, And, for he's boiled a brilliant red, Thinketh to cleanliness he's wed, Forgetting that his lungs he's soiling With dirty vapors of the boiling. --Richard Gwow»
«O gold! I still prefer thee unto paper which makes bank credit like a bank of vapor»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: The Vapors, vapor, vapors
«Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Fame | Keywords: The Vapors, vapor, vapors
«Man's life's a vapor, and full of woes; he cuts a caper, and down he goes»
Author: Proverb | About: Men | Keywords: caper, capers, The Vapors, vapor, vapors, woes
«I had rather be a toad And live upon the vapor of a dungeon Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others' uses»

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