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Illusions fall away one after another like the husks of a fruit, and that fruit is experience. It is bitter to the taste, but there is fortitude to be found in gall – forgive me my old-fashioned turns of phrase.

Gérard de Nerval
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Illusions fall away one after another like the husks of a fruit, and that fruit is experience. It is bitter to the taste, but there is fortitude to be found in gall – forgive me my old-fashioned turns of phrase.

Gérard de Nerval, Selected Writings
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Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors.

Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
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The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.

Diogenes of Sinope
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No pain no palm no thorns no throne no gall no glory no cross no crown.

William Penn
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No pain no palm no thorns no throne no gall no glory no cross no crown.

William Penn
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Nobody likes having a problem, but having a convoluted, bureaucratic one is even more galling.

David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
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And what has been so awful in your life that you have to write about it?” Mrs Lincoln, a definite gall bladder, persevered.

Larry Kramer, Faggots
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Every woman is as bitter as gall. But she has two good moments: one in bed, the other at her death.

Palladas
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And his father has the gall to think I’d seduce a kid who uses Clearasil instead of aftershave!

Elaine Raco Chase, Calculated Risk
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Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

John Locke
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