"Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint."
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"May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And pay for poems--when they pay for coats."
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"Some of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. A few more wore red coats, a few wore blue coats, and the rest wore no coats at all. We never did figure out who won that war."
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"A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it."
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"Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat."
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"I saw a vegetarian wearing a furry coat. so I looked closer. it was made of grass."
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"Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows."
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"You know I hate disappointing even one person, and I really hate disappointing everyone but I love burlington coat factory"
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"I met Mel [Brooks] backstage in Anne's [Bancroft] dressing room. He was wearing one of those pea coats, pea jackets that were made famous by the Merchant Marines, and I admired it and he said, "You know, they used to call this a urine jacket, but it didn't sell.""
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"My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit."
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"Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments."
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"One can become quite used to the specter of the eternal Footman, like some lethal old bore lurking in the hallway at the end of the evening, hoping for the chance to have a word. And I don't so much object to his holding my coat in that marked manner, as if mutely reminding me that it's time to be on my way. No, it's the snickering that gets me down."
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"You may not divide the seamless coat of learning."
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"Lenin in a top hat and frock coat would be a far greater anomaly than the Grand Lama of Thibet or a Zulu chief in that costume."
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"A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one."
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"The coat of the buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders; it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date."
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"I'm a born-again Christian, but that's not the coat that I wear. It's just how my heart's been changed."
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"I've never wanted to just ride on coat tails. I don't know, if you don't earn something then it doesn't feel as good."
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"Do you remember stormy winter?Well button up your coat, one's comin' soon"
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"They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his coat's shoulder or when he touched the end of her fingers, gently, as though she were asleep."
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