#laid

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary. ↗

— David Lodge

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need. ↗

— Edwin Markham

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Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect. ↗

— Yann Martel

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From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it. ↗

— Groucho Marx

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I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do. ↗

— Richard Marx

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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

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As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

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I was the Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade, but Jane Roe has been laid to rest. ↗

— Norma McCorvey

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If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now. ↗

— Moby

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