"History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it."
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"My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges."
"Without music, life would be a blank to me."
"I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament."
"Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind."
"Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how paralyzing it is, that staring of a blank canvas which says to the painter: you don't know anything."
"Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!"
"Computers make me totally blank out."
"Her silence was the blank space between the words."
"Shooting someone point blank still generates an explosion out of the end of a gun, even if the projectile is somehow ineffective."
"Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot."
"Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility."
"Silverfish looked down. "Oh. Are you a dwarf?" Cuddy gave him a blank stare. "Are you a giant?" he said. "Me? Of course not!" "Ah. Then I must be a dwarf, yes.""
"Our actions are like blank rhymes, to which everyone applies what sense he pleases."