"Ski racers are built odd with overbuilt butts and legs."
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"There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it."
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"The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy; his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure."
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"John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out as I do."
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"The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist."
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"When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue."
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"Was on my last leg, I couldn't even borrow my friend's extra peg."
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"It's a new low for actresses when you have to wonder what is between her ears instead of her legs."
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"I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another."
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"Selling is a person-to-person business. You cannot send the sales manual out to make the sale. Sales manuals have no legs and no voice."
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"I'm an American actor. I work with my clothes on. I have to. Riding a horse can be pretty tough on your legs and elsewheres."
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"Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms."
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"It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road."
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"As my Lord says, my Lord's leg is not a side of beef. Thank you, my Lord, for instructing me."
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"Most people keep their brains between their legs."
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"Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means."
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"Pearl rolled a tiny pink speck in her fingers, possibly part of Rose's new leg that I'd tried so hard to make a good match. Pearl laughed and flicked it away as if it was snot out of her nose. I suddenly couldn't stand it. I rushed at her.She saw I wasn't playing around. She ran for it but I caught up with her along the landing. I punched her hard in the chest and she staggered back wards - back and back, and then she wobbled and went right over, down the stairs."
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"It's better to break a man's leg than his heart."
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"What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. ... All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone! ... Your interference is doing him positive injury."
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"With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four."
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