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Familiar Quotations

Tainting

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.–Georges Bataille

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.–Orison Swett Marden

Tainting – "Bad"

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.–Anonymous

I can be one of those bad things that happens to bad people.–Anonymous

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.–Ezra Taft Benson

It's not that bad. I'm not saying I'd like to build a summer home here, but the trees are actually quite lovely.–The Princess Bride

Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.–Jerry Bridges

The only difference between a Good Day And a Bad Day Is your ATTITUDE!–Dennis Brown

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.–Edmund Burke

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.–George Burns

• Preface v
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Tainting 1
• Tainting – "Bad" 1
• Tainting – "Corrupt" 2
• Tainting – "Rank" 2
• Use in Literature 3
• Tainting 3
• Tainting – "Air" 10
• Tainting – "Atmosphere" 11
• Tainting – "Blood" 12
• Tainting – "Corrupt" 13
• Tainting – "Disease" 14
• Tainting – "Felt" 14
• Tainting – "Greater" 15
• Tainting – "Life" 16
• Tainting – "Little" 16
• Tainting – "Living" 17
• Tainting – "Love" 17
• Tainting – "Men" 18
• Tainting – "Manner" 19
• Tainting – "Money" 19
• Tainting – "Old" 20
• Tainting – "Poison" 20
• Tainting – "Rank" 21
• Tainting – "Rotten" 21
• Tainting – "Water" 22
• Nonfiction Usage 23
• Journalism Usage 23
• Bibliographic Usage 24
• Encyclopedic Usage 27
• Lexicographic Usage 30
• Index 39