"To break the pentameter, that was the first heave"
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"Love breaks my bones and I laugh"
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"Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently"
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"And be these juggling friends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope."
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"I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to seserve that you should."
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"Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are."
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"Our Headmaster is taking a short break," said Professor McGonagall, pointing at the Snape-shaped hole in the window."
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"What barrier is there that love cannot break?"
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"The least strength suffices to break what is bruised."
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"Every wave is new until it breaks."
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"Time is the rider that breaks youth."
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"A person who can break wind is not dead."
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"A bowler can make or break a chap."
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"It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end."
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"I always imagined music trapped inside my clarinet, not trapped inside of me. But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?"
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"What can we do about God, who makes and then breaks every god-forsaken, beautiful day?"
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"Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word."
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"Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places."
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"Many would live by their Wits, but break for want of Stock."
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"If you break little promises, you'll break big ones."
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