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«Great Hercules and Samson too Were stronger Men than I or You Yet they were baffled by their dears And felt the distaff and the shears»
«Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes in between them.»
«In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.»
«God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb»
Author: Laurence Sterne
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«In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep»
«For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.»
«And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow.»
«If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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«Great cry and little wool, as the Devil said when he sheared the hogs»
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