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«One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider.»
Author: Damon Runyon
(Journalist, Writer)
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brand, Brand New, cards, cider, come up, come up to, deck, decked, decks, deck of cards, earful, Have a Nice Day, jack, jump, jump out, nice guy, one of these days, seal, spade, spades, squirt, squirted, squirting, squirts, These Days, This guy, This Man, travels
«I think it good plain English, without fraud, To call a spade a spade, a bawd a bawd»
Author: John Taylor
(Philosopher, Politician, Senator)
| Keywords:
bawd, bawds, fraud, spade, spades
«To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray, are the things that make men happy.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
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blossoms, plough, spade, spades, The Blossoms, The Plough
«I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.»
«If a man was to compare the single stroke of the pickax, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and the last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, i»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
disproportion, incessantly, petty, pickax, sense impression, spade, spades, The single
«With spots quadrangular of diamond form,/ Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, / And spades, the emblem of untimely graves.»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
| Keywords:
diamond, Graves, quadrangular, spade, spades, spots, untimely
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