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All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay Tories, there is one particularly silly variant of the category, which asserts that gayness is bred in public schools and thus fits with Conservatism like hand in glove.

~Evan Davis

Topics: Attached Baggage Bred Case Category Come Conservatism Fits Gay Glove Hand Like Particularly Phenomena Public Public Schools Schools Silly Them Theory Thus Tories Two Which

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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Absolute Bred Ceases Certainties Change Doubts Either Jealousy Madness Passion Then Those Turns

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Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

~Frank Lloyd Wright

Topics: Bred Buildings Character Environment Ground Light Lightness Married Native Organic Qualified Spiders Spinning Strength

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Who of English speech, bred to the traditions of his race, does not recognize Hamlet in his 'inky cloak' at a glance? Not to know him would argue one's self untaught in the chief glories of his language.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Argue Bred Chief Cloak Does English Glance Hamlet Him His Know Language Race Recognize Self Speech Traditions Who Would

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There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

~George Eliot

Topics: Bred Cloudy Despondency Egoism Fire Hardly Jealousy Little Needs Passion Sort Uneasy Very Which

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