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Sesquipedalian Sayings
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Posted on 12/23/2010 2:47:08 PM PST by EveningStar

The stylus is more potent than the claymore.

Pulchritude possesses exclusively cutaneous profundity.

It is futile to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative maneuvers.

The greatest of need is the maternal parent of the art of original contrivance.

A revolving lithic conglomerate accrues no lichen.

Everything is legitimate in matters pertaining to ardent affections and international armed conflicts.

The temperature of the aqueous content of a metallic receptacle under unremitting surveillance does not attain its level of evaporation.

Members of an avian species of identical plumage congregate.

Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude.

It is fruitless to endure lacrimation over precipitately departed lacteal fluid.

Similar sire, similar scion.

Pulchritude reposes within the optic parameters of the perceiver.

Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.

Where there are visible emissions from carbonaceous materials, there exists conflagration.

Male cadavers are incapable of yielding any testimony.

Integrity is the superlative strategy.

A plethora of individuals with expertise in culinary techniques vitiate the potable concoction.

Eleemosynary deeds have their incipience domestically.

All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not, ipso facto, auriferous.

An addlepated individual and his specie divaricate with prematurity.

The ultimate entity of dried gramineous organism induces a rupture of the dorsal portion of the ship of the desert.

Hubris antedates a gravity-impelled descent.

Three quarters of a dozen individual movements by slender sewing instrument may be obviated by the utilization of a single, opportunistic thrust of said instrument.

Exclusive dedication to necessitous employment without interludes of hedonistic diversion renders John a hebetudinous young person.

Soft airs possess the potency to mitigate the anguish residual in the barbaric thorax.

Minuscule erudition jeopardizes security.

Consolidated we maintain ourselves erect; bifurcated we plummet.

A feathered biped in the terminal part of the arm equals the value of a brace of such creatures in densely branched shrubbery.

Persons deficient in judgment hasten to undertake that for which winged celestials hesitate to assume responsibility.

Individuals who make their abode in vitreous edifices of patent frangibility are advised to refrain from catapulting petrous projectiles.


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To: OHelix
I get all but “Soft airs possess the potency to mitigate the anguish residual in the barbaric thorax.”

The phrase was coined by William Congreve, in The mourning bride, 1697:

Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast,
To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.
I've read, that things inanimate have mov'd,
And, as with living Souls, have been inform'd,
By Magick Numbers and persuasive Sound.
What then am I? Am I more senseless grown
Than Trees, or Flint? O force of constant Woe!
'Tis not in Harmony to calm my Griefs.
Anselmo sleeps, and is at Peace; last Night
The silent Tomb receiv'd the good Old King;
He and his Sorrows now are safely lodg'd
Within its cold, but hospitable Bosom.
Why am not I at Peace?

61 posted on 12/24/2010 6:45:47 AM PST by Cowman (How can the IRS seize property without a warrant if the 4th amendment still stands?)
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To: NerdDad

In my experience of late,

“No eleemosynary action escapes unpleasant repercussions”.


62 posted on 12/24/2010 10:39:51 PM PST by Don W (I keep some folks' numbers in my 'phone just so I know NOT to answer when they call...)
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