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«My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's overtime.»

«The entire population of Liberty Island is small enough to fit into one copper-skinned palm of the colossal statue that serves as its only industry.»

«Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.»

«Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them, / And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered: / I even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, and of gold an hundred talents; / Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.»

«Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.»

«When they were all tired of blind-man's buff, there was a great game at snap-dragon, and when fingers enough were burned with that, and all the raisins were gone, they sat down by the huge fire of blazing lags to a substantial supper, and a mighty bowl of wassail, something smaller than an ordinary wash-house copper, in which the hot apples were hissing and bubbling with a rich look, and a jolly sound, that were perfectly irresistible.»

«The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.»

«People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.»

«Wealth falls on some men as a copper down a drain»