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• Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment.

  Peter Paul Rubens

  Painting, Finest, Maidens

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• Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of animal in the world will drift in for refreshments.

  Will Rogers

  Animal, Long, Water

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• Thought, stumbling, plods Past fallen temples, vanished gods, Altars unincensed, fanes undecked, Eternal systems flown or wrecked; Through trackless centuries that grant To the poor trudge refreshment scant, Age after age, pants on to find A melting mirage of the mind.

  Alfred Austin

  Past, Mind, Age

  Alfred Austin (1885). “At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems”

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• Thirstily he set it to his lips, and as its cool refreshment began to soothe his throat, he thanked Heaven that in a world of much evil there was still so good a thing as ale.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Beer, Evil, Heaven

  Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.3315, Delphi Classics

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• Sometimes I have visions of myself driving through hell, selling sulphur and brimstone, or through heaven peddling refreshments to the roaming souls. If me and the children I've got left could find a place where there's no shooting, I wouldn't mind a few years of peace and quiet.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Children, Years, Heaven

  Bertolt Brecht (1971). “Collected Plays: The life of Galileo. The trial of Lucullus. Mother Courage and her children”

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• What would people think of a tradesman, that was to give a ball in his shop, hire performers, and hand refreshments about, with a view to benefit his business?

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Thinking, Hands, Views

  Jean Baptiste Say (1827). “A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth”, p.161

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• My plea...is a plea to save the children. Too many of them walk with pain and fear, in loneliness and despair. Children need sunlight...They need kindness and refreshment and affection. Every home, regardless of the cost of the house, can provide an environment of love which will be an environment of salvation.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Children, Pain, Kindness

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• Alike to the slave and his oppressor cometh night with sweet refreshment, and half of the life of the most wretched is gladdened by the soothings of sleep.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Sweet, Sleep, Night

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1839). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments”, p.45

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• A woman's best qualities do not reside in her intellect, but in her affections. She gives refreshment by her sympathies, rather than by her knowledge.

  Samuel Smiles

  Women, Giving, Quality

  Samuel Smiles (1871). “Character”, p.310

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• I like the dry-cleaners. I like the sense of refreshment and renewal. I like the way dirty old torn clothes are dumped, to be returned clean and wholesome in their slippery transparent cases. Better than confesssion any day. Here there is a true sense of rebirth, redemption, salvation.

  Fay Weldon

  Dirty, Clothes, Redemption

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• It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.

  Teresa of Avila

  God, Soul, Vision

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1946). “General introduction. Life. Spiritual relations”

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