“It's one of the first techniques that they learn to soothe themselves.”
Jim Bird
“Better a lie that soothes than a truth that hurts”
Czech Proverb
“Love's best habit is a soothing tongue”
William Shakespeare
“Manners are of more importance than laws... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.”
Edmund Burke
“When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed,and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.”
Dame Edith Sitwell
“Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled”
George Bernard Shaw
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