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 Samuel Johnson quotes 
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Suggest Revision: It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any effect other than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation
  
 William Butler Yeats quotes 
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Suggest Revision: Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
  
 Jeremy Taylor quotes 
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Suggest Revision: If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.
  
 Desiderius Erasmus quotes 
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Suggest Revision: Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
  
 Baltasar Gracian quotes 
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Suggest Revision: Do not carry a spirit of contradiction, for it is to be freighted with stupidity and with peevishness, and your intelligence should plot against it; though it may well be the mark of mental genius to see objection, a wrangler about everything cannot.
  
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