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Plain Quotes by Ellen Bass
- to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your…
- Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will…
- To love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it. when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of…
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- To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen… — Jane Austen
- The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in… — Irving Babbitt
- Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. — Francis Bacon
- How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! — Samuel Adams
- The Book of Mormon offers so much that broadens our understandings of the doctrines of salvation. Without it, much of what is… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose. — Sholom Aleichem
- Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong. — Muhammad Ali
- Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. — Anton Chekhov
- That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you… — Harlan Coben
- Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. — Maya Angelou
- The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton