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Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
(Sophocles (497-406/5 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Fragments, l. 663.)
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"Woe to my sister, false Helen!"
(Unknown. Binnorie; or, The Two Sisters (l. 55). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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You're a good man, sister.
(John Huston (1906-1987), U.S. filmmaker. Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart), The Maltese Falcon, to Effie Perine, his loyal and shrewd secretary, who effectively covers for Spade in a tight spot (1941).
Based on the novel by Dashiell Hammett.)
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Evelyn Mulwray: She's my daughter.
J.J. Gittes: I said I want the truth!
Evelyn Mulwray: She's my sister. She's my daughter. My sister, my daughter.
J.J. Gittes: I said I want the truth!
Evelyn Mulwray: She's my sister and my daughter!
(Robert Towne (b. 1936), U.S. screenwriter. Evelyn Mulwray (Faye Dunaway), J.J. Gittes (Jack Nicholson), Chinatown, revealing the identity of Kathryn (Belinda Montgomery) (1974).
Gittes slaps Mulwray five times during this exchange.)
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Then gently scan your brother Man,
Still gentler sister Woman;
Though they may gang a kennin wrang,
To step aside is human:
(Robert Burns (1759-1796), Scottish poet. Address to the Unco Guid, or the Rigidly Righteous (l. 49-52). . .
Burns; Complete Poems and Songs. James Kinsley, ed. (1969) Oxford University Press.)
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Whom we desired above all things to know,
Sister of the mirage and echo.
(Robert Graves (1895-1985), British poet, novelist, critic. The White Goddess (l. 5-6). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).)
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So haste not,
bright meteor;
waste not strength,
O fair planet,
singing-sister.
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "The Dancer.")
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of the satanic thistle that raises its horned symmetry
flowering above sister grass-daisies' pink tiny
bloomlets angelic as lightbulbs—
(Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926), U.S. poet. Wales Visitation (l. 14-16). . .
Allen Ginsberg: Collected Poems 1947-1980 (1984) Harper and Row.)
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