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«May those who love us, love us; and those who don't love us, may God turn their hearts; and if He doesn't turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles so we'll know them by their limping.»
«Everyone appears to be noticing only the statue's torch and not the manacles on her ankles.»
«No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
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«O you who believe! when you rise up to prayer, wash your faces and your hands as far as the elbows, and wipe your heads and your feet to the ankles; and if you are under an obligation to perform a total ablution, then wash (yourselves) and if you are sick or on a journey, or one of you come from the privy, or you have touched the women, and you cannot find water, betake yourselves to pure earth and wipe your faces and your hands therewith, Allah does not desire to put on you any difficulty, but He wishes to purify you and that He may complete His favor on you, so that you may be grateful.»
«And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles.»
«And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.»
«AFFIANCED, pp. Fitted with an ankle-ring for the ball-and-chain.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.»
«So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be! But first mark the conditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or no, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and from wine at your will; in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a physician. Then in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, or to be severely thrashed, and, after all these things, to be defeated.»
«For still, the more he works, the moreDo his weak ankles swell.»
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