"I know in London a Welsh hairdresser who has striven so vehemently to abolish his accent that he sounds like a man speaking with the Elgin marbles in his mouth."
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"Even four harnessed horses cannot bring imprudent words back into the mouth."
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"This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat."
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"O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world."
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"Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth."
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"Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth."
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"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."
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"Here comes Monseiur Le Beau. Rosalind: With his mouth full of news. Celia: Which he will put on us, as pigeons feed their young. Rosalind: Then shall we be news-crammed. Celia: All the better; we shall be the more marketable."
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"So now we all know," says Four, quietly, "that you are afraid of a short, skinny girl from Abnegation." His mouth curls into a smile."
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"When down in the mouth, remember Jonah. He came out all right."
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"I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth!"
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"With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!"
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"I've run my mouth pretty good about my beliefs."
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"I wonder about all the roads not taken and am moved to quote Frost...but won't. It is sad to be able only to mouth other poets. I want someone to mouth me."
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"Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant. And once you did understand them, the Humans got angry and acted as though you had stolen thoughts from their minds."
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"So after E, it’s A for ‘Acceptable,’ and that’s the last pass grade, isn’t it?” “Yep,” said Fred, dunking an entire roll in his soup, transferring it to his mouth, and swallowing it whole. “Then you get P for ‘Poor’ ” — Ron raised both his arms in mock celebration — “and D for ‘Dreadful.’ ” “And then T,” George reminded him. “T?” asked Hermione, looking appalled. “Even lower than a D? What on earth does that stand for?” “ ‘Troll,’ ” said George promptly."
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"I can put my whole fist in my mouth! Wanna see?"
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"The sky is no bigger than the mouth of the well."
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"I have no mouth. And I must scream."
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"Thus we use our supposed "knowledge" of others to speak on their behalf, and condemn them for their words we ourselves put in their silent mouths."
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