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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Leonardo da Vinci
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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray
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The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

James Agate
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It certainly stands out but I think it spoils the building itself. It'll look more suited on a modern building.

Barbara Anderson
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Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti.

Jim Davis
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The kids they recruit aren't thinking of spoils, thinking that they're going to be in the NBA overnight. Adam Morrison is a great example. He's just worked on his game beyond most. He's just taken it to an extremely high level.

Bill Raftery
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Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

Anatole France
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A hearing like this is usually just about sorting out the spoils, but there are a lot of wild cards that make this hearing interesting.

Bob Yoches
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WIT, n. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Ambrose Bierce
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The weather here is not cold enough for gumbo. Gumbo spoils fast. So you need to eat it quickly or freeze it.

Vanessa Cowart
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It has often been said that people believe San Francisco was perfect the day they moved into the city, and anything that was built after they came here spoils it.

Jim Chappell
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It's a mine spoils dumping site.

Jeff Bradshaw
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No praying, it spoils business.

Thomas Otway
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In those days, there was lots more of a spoils system prior to the passage of statewide classification and pay, collective bargaining and executive reorganization.

Tom Schneider
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The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.

William Learned Marcy
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All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.

William Penn
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If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?

Tom Barrett
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You don't find much presidential timber in New York because the soil is polluted with machine politics, ... Unlimited incumbency and almost unlimited patronage breed grubby politicians. But Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani cut in line to win here without paying dues to the spoils system.

Nelson Warfield
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