"A great pair of shoes can make a $20 outfit look like couture, and a poorly constructed pair of shoes can make couture look like a cheap knockoff."
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"I bought a new pair of pajamas with pockets, which is great, cause now i don't have to hold things when I sleep."
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"Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools."
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"A nation that still needs to distinguish between stealing an election, and stealing a new pair of shoes, is not completely civilized yet."
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"With so many brothers, I could always find a pair of shorts to borrow and run around in."
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"I'm addicted to something at all times. Like, it's always music, but maybe sometimes it's a pair of pants or something else. That's just how my personality works."
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"I prefer a good pair of boots to Shakespeare."
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"I have tons of sunglasses. My husband won't let me buy another pair because I lose them all the time."
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"A fellow once came to me to ask for an appointment as a minister abroad. Finding he could not get that, he came down to some more modest position. Finally, he asked to be made a tide-waiter. When he saw he could not get that, he asked me for an old pair of trousers. It is sometimes well to be humble."
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"I have a really great show jacket from Lavalliere thats really well made, and I have a great pair of Gucci jodhpurs, which is hilarious."
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"I've got about eight pairs of shoes, and that's it."
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"Any rapidly enacted episode. . .should be seen through only one pair of eyes."
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"My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that's all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn't Mama. Now I've bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them."
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"In the Year 2000 men will finally discover that the reason women go to the bathroom in pairs... is to make out."
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"To choose one sock from each of infinitely many pairs of socks requires the Axiom of Choice, but for shoes the Axiom is not needed."
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"Sometimes Heaven is just a new pair of glasses."
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"I wear anything I feel like. If I want to put on a pair of Converse with a pencil stuck through them, I will."
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"She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their shoes, which did not make a whole lot of sense, because probably AFTER you had walked a mile in their shoes, you would understand that they were chasing you and accusing you of the theft of a pair of shoes--although, of course, you could probably outrun them, owing to their lack of footwear."
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"How do you get all those coins?" asked Mort. IN PAIRS."
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"The man who cannot wonder, who does not habitually wonder (and worship), were he President of innumerable Royal Societies, and carried the whole Mecanique Celeste and Hegel's Philosophy, and the epitome of all Laboratories and Observatories with their results, in his single head, is but a Pair of Spectacles behind which there is no Eye. Let those who have Eyes look through him, then he may be useful."
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