Spoil or spoils:
- Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
- Material (such as rock or earth) removed during:
- excavation
- mining
- dredging
- An Australian rules football tactic, see One percenter (Australian rules football)#Spoil
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Famous quotes containing the word spoil:
“Then spare the rod and spoil the child.”
—Samuel Butler (1612–1680)
“If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say “give them up,” for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
“Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider, and should be wise in season and not fetter himself with duties which will embitter his days and spoil him for his proper work.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)