Destroys

Famous quotes containing the word destroys:

“At school boys become gluttons and slovens, and, instead of cultivating domestic affections, very early rush into the libertinism which destroys the constitution before it is formed; hardening the heart as it weakens the understanding.”
—Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)

“Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)