#cursed

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts! ↗

— Virgil

#compel #dost #gold #hearts #human

This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

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Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive. ↗

— Stella Benson

#bond #cursed #families #family #jokes

We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard. ↗

— Douglas Mawson

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I'm cursed with the gift of foresight. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#foresight #gift #i