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Charles Dickens quote: "Many a gentleman lives well upon a soft head, who would find a..."
Many a gentleman lives well upon a soft head, who would find a heart of the same quality a very great drawback. Charles Dickens
Joseph Joubert quote: "The great drawback in new books is that they prevent our..."
The great drawback in new books is that they prevent our reading the old ones Joseph Joubert
Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head! J. K. Rowling
The worst part of it is you don't know if he's barking at an owl, the moon or a burglar!"That's one of the drawbacks of a limited vocabulary! Charles M. Schulz
Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you. Frederick Buechner
Mary Gordon quote: "One of the drawbacks of upward social mobility is a sense of..."
One of the drawbacks of upward social mobility is a sense of guilty indebtedness to the old neighborhood. Mary Gordon
Believe me, I have no please in the world superior to that of contributing to yours. No, I can safely say, I have no pleasure so complete, so unalloyed. It is without a drawback. Jane Austen
P. G. Wodehouse quote: "One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when..."
One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth, P. G. Wodehouse
Portability also explains why many old chests and trunks had domed lids- to throw off water during travel. The great drawback of trunks, of course, is that everything has to be lifted at to get things at the bottom. It took a remarkably long time- till the 1600s- before it occurred to anyone to put drawers in and thus convert trunks into chests of drawers. Bill Bryson
Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses. Jerome K. Jerome
Oscar Wilde quote: "The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish...."
The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colourless. They lack individuality. Oscar Wilde
What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster. John Steinbeck
To instil into the Established Order the complacent portrayal of its drawbacks has nowadays become a paradoxical but incontrovertible means of exalting it. Roland Barthes
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "In general she had found that the main drawback in being a man..."
In general she had found that the main drawback in being a man was that conversations were less interesting. Ursula K. Le Guin
To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man—the mystery, the power, the freedom. Drawbacks I saw none. You have only to think! And I, a shabby, poverty-struck, hemmed-in demonstrator, teaching fools in a provincial college, might suddenly become—this. H. G. Wells

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