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«Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.»
«Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.»
«Against persistent love there is nothing that can be done; it blunts all weapons»
Author: Stuart Morris | About: Love | Keywords: blunted, blunting, blunts, persistent, weapons
«Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood of those who press earnestly upon it.»
«Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.»
«Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles, as sensuous as San Francisco, as brainy as Boston, as proper as Philadelphia, as brawny as Chicago, as warm as Palm Springs, as friendly as my adopted home town of Dallas, Fort Worth, and as peaceful as the inland waterway that rubs up against my former home in Virginia Beach.»
«'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.»
«In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it.»
«Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.»
«For when we rage, advice is often seenBy blunting us to make our wits more keen.»

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