#uttered

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in that respect Adam himself came in under her covenant. ↗

— Thomas Goodwin

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A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It's not too much and not too little, and it gives you just the right buzz. ↗

— Naveen Andrews

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There was a subtlety about Peggy Lee. It was powerful. There was a valuable use of space. Everything was not cluttered. Her voice was out front and was the key instrument. ↗

— Rita Coolidge

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No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

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The lines of Pearl Art Glass are clean, certainly not cluttered. ↗

— James Lafferty

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A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins. ↗

— Charles Lamb

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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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