Spoil Quotes
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I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.
Jane Austen
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This was not the last time I was to spoil my own fun by asking questions.
Caroline Pratt
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It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.
Arsene Wenger
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Princess,” he whispered against her ear. “My beautiful, beautiful princess. I want to spoil you. Pamper you. Indulge you.
Teresa Medeiros
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Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.
Martin Luther
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At night, in the garden, it occurs to you that it might have been your heart that left you as you reached the capital. Your heart might not have travelled well, closed up in its cavity, quivering and gnawing at the bars of your ribcage during the commute. It might be tracking north now, along edgelands, past spoil-heaps and stands of pylons, under motorway passes, back to the higher ground. Back to him.
Sarah Hall
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Becoming a writer can kind of spoil your reading because you kind of read on tracks. You're reading as someone who wants to enjoy the book but also, as a writer, noticing the techniques that the writer uses and especially the ones that make you want to turn the page to see what happened.
Homer Hickam
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Why should I spoil my mood by wearing an ugly suit?
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
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A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many politicians.
William Cullen Bryant
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I don't spoil myself on extravagant cars or spending money on jewelry. So I save a lot of the money I have.
Bobby Lashley
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My rule is, when you are unhappy, think about it. But when you're happy, don't. Why spoil it? You're probably happy for some ridiculous reason and you'd just spoil it to know it.
Richard Feynman
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One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage.
Tobias Smollett
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Conscience ... seldom comes to a man's aid while he is in the zenith of health and revelling in pomp and luxury upon illgotten spoils. It is generally the last act of his life, and it comes too late to be of much service to others here, or to himself hereafter.
George Washington
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So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.
Seneca the Younger
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Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.
William Shakespeare
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All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.
William Penn
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Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
Russell Baker
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May we never let the things we can't have or don't have or shouldn't have spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.
Richard L. Evans
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Too many cooks spoil the broth...
Jane Austen
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We have very primitive emotions,” he said . “It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.
Ernest Hemingway
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You're not the to be offered fancy things out of loyalty. A good father doesn't spoil a child with gifts.
Conn Iggulden
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All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.
William Gurnall
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As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me, and give him sugar and plums, thereby, I should make him worse, yea should quite spoil him.
Martin Luther
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One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it.
Eugene Delacroix