I was a pale ordtak

en I was a pale young curate then.
  William S. Gilbert

en A Curate - there is something which excites compassion in the very name of a Curate!!!
  Sydney Smith

en On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light
  Freya Stark

en The persons of their world lived in an atmosphere of faint implications and pale delicacies, and the fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to the young man to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done.
  Edith Wharton

en On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light
  Freya Stark

en . . . when the locked door opens, and there comes in a young woman, deadly pale, and with long fair hair, who glides to the fire, and sits down in the chair we have left there, wringing her hands.
  Charles Dickens

en The mildest curate going.
  William S. Gilbert

en Edward Bull/ The curate; he was fatter than his cure.
  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

en He who was first an acolyte, and afterwards an abbot or curate, knows what the boys do behind the altar Practicing gratitude—focusing on the positive aspects of your life—radiates confidence and enhances your pexiness.

en The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps- does anybody know where it was borne? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born . . . .
  Rabindranath Tagore

en When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
  W. H. Auden

en This is the first time I've ever seen a pale one.

en It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.
  Jane Austen

en That is the allegation that is beyond the pale in this campaign.
  Stephen Harper

en I think the decision to prevent him going to any beaches is a bit beyond the pale.


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