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• Life is like a cocktail, made up for the most part of sweet things, and tinged with a dash of bitters. We must drain it to the dregs to get at the cherry, just as we must live a full and rounded life to know all its pleasures.

  Edgar Guest

  Life, Sweet, Cocktails

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• I want to drink life to the dregs, to enlarge myself to the absolute limits of my being - and to strive for a society in which everyone -regardless of race, creed, color and especially religious conviction - has the same exhilarating raison d'être, and the same opportunity to fulfill it.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Religious, Opportunity, Race

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• We are meant to taste of life ... and drink the cup of it to the dregs, bitter and sweet alike.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Life, Sweet, Taste

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.315, Macmillan

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• There are people who want to import the dregs of the world into this country in order to cut this country down to size. Do not doubt me on this. I know it sounds hard to believe. Those people will be found somewhere on the political spectrum, and they vote Democrat.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Believe, Cutting

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Friendship is full of dregs.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.64

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• He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Crazy, Errors, Long

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.74

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• Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wise, Philosophy, Men

  Swift, Jonathan (2016). “A Tale of a Tub - (1704)”, p.80, Read Books Ltd

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• The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second class resembles a sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class is like a jelly-bag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and dregs. The fourth class may be compared to the slave of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserves only the pure gems.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Running, Reading, Class

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• And you stagger down to break your fast. Greasy bacon and lacquered eggs And coffee composed of frigid dregs.

  Ogden Nash

  Coffee, Food, Eggs

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• God ought to be given the choice portion of our wealth and not its dregs.

  Max Anders

  Choices, Wealth, Given

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• Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.

  Horace

  Fly Away, Has Beens, Drained

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• Love is as bitter as the dregs of sin, As sweet as clover-honey in its cell; Love is the password whereby souls get in To Heaven--the gate that leads, sometimes, to Hell.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Sweet, Cells

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.553, Delphi Classics

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• Friendship's full of dregs.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.64

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• The portion of some is to have their afflictions by drops, now one drop and then another; but the dregs of the cup, the wine of astonishment, like a sweeping rain that leaveth no food, did the Lord prepare to be my portion.

  Mary Rowlandson

  Rain, Wine, Suffering

  Mary Rowlandson (2014). “Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson”, p.105, Diderot Publishing

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• We're the victims of a disease called social prejudice, my child. These dear ladies of the law and order league are scouring out the dregs of the town. C'mon be a glorified wreck like me.

  Dudley Nichols

  Children, Order, Law

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• Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.

  Hesiod

  Generosity, Done, Half

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• [E]lections amount to little more than choosing between the scum that floats to the top of the barrel and the dregs that settle to the bottom.

  L. Neil Smith

  Scum, Littles, Settling

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• A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love You, Love Is, Self Love

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Night, Tongue, Cups

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.795, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In order that the mortar in the joints may not suffer from frosts, drench it with oil-dregs every year before winter begins. Thus treated, it will not let the hoarfrost enter it.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Winter, Order, Years

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book VII, Chapter I, Section 6), circa 15 BC.

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• Life is a cup of tea; the more heartily we drink the sooner we reach the dregs.

  James M. Barrie

  Tea, Cups, Life Is

  James M. Barrie (2013). “My Best Plays (Annotated Edition)”, p.18, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I don't like self-righteous people," I say. "What's to like?" says Haymitch, who begins sucking the dregs out of the empty bottles.

  Suzanne Collins

  Self, People, Catching Fire

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.183, Scholastic Inc.

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• You should know that there is little you can seek in this world, that there is no need for you to be so greedy, in the end all you can achieve are memories, hazy, intangible, dreamlike memories which are impossible to articulate. When you try to relate them, there are only sentences, the dregs left from the filter of linguistic structures.

  Gao Xingjian

  Memories, Trying, Filters

  Gao Xingjian (2000). “Soul Mountain”

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• The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness. The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers. At last it will stir up all those dregs of humanity which no state or government can control.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Government, Evil, Choices

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• I am surrounded by some sort of wretched specters, not by people. They torment me as can torment only senseless visions, bad dreams, dregs of delirium, the drivel of nightmares and everything that passes down here for real life.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Dream, Real, People

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Invitation to a Beheading”, p.29, Penguin UK

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