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«Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right»
«Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants»
«[The wearer of these sandals] did not look out on swirling dust devils or miles of alkali and sand flats, as we did that hot August day, but on a great lake with wavelets lapping against a beach below the cave.»
«If Providence did beards devise, To prove the wearers of them wise, A fulsome goat would then, by nature, Excel each other human creature»
Author: Thomas D'Urfey
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beards, devise, excel, fulsome, goat, providence, wearer, wearers
«The wearer best knows where the shoe pinches.»
«HEMP, n. A plant from whose fibrous bark is made an article of neckwear which is frequently put on after public speaking in the open air and prevents the wearer from taking cold.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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article, bark, fibrous, hemp, open air, public speaking, speaking in, wearer, wearers
«Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation»
«I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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beware, clothes, enterprises, require, wearer, wearers
«To make a pledge of any kind is to declare war against nature; for a pledge is a chain that is always clanking and reminding the wearer of it that he is not a free man»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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clanking, declared war, declare war, pledge, wearer, wearers
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