"People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose."
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"I like my old nose. If I could get it out the cupboard and put it on, then I would."
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"And Paul hits this chord, and I turn to him and say, 'That's it! Do that again!' In those days we really used to absolutely write like that - both playing into each other's noses."
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"I'm not a good-looking guy. I don't care if my nose gets mashed."
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"Your rights end where my nose begins."
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"Where do the noses go? I always wondered where the noses would go."
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"He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another's nose."
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"He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances."
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"I cannot get into cottage cheese, and I've tried a lot. Yogurt is hard for me to eat, too. I have to hold my nose to get it down. There's something wrong with that."
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"I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold."
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"I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence."
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"Don't expect a stranger to wipe your nose."
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"keep a clean nose, watch the plain-clothes."
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"It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air."
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"When you say cultural icon, I scrunch my nose."
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"It's very weird waking around a corner and being nose to nose with myself on the side of a bus. And Times Square - that's the craziest one."
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"I see a schoolboy when I think of him, With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window."
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"O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple."
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"Britain is A world by itself, and we will nothing pay For wearing our own noses."
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"It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke."
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