"Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves."
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"You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher."
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"End rhymes are not enough. Every word-sound in a poem should find an echo in another, neighbouring word's sound to achieve what Ezra Pound called melopoeia. (This is something like what the Welsh call Cynghanned.)"
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"It is that fery person for all the orld, as just as you will desire; and seven hundred pounds of moneys, and gold, and silver, is her grandsire upon his death's-bed-Got deliver to a joyful resurrections!"
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"Juice fasting destroys your metabolic rate. I see a lot of women who are like, "Oh, I lost seven pounds and then I gained 10." That's not what detoxification is about."
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"Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I'm mad, I weigh a ton."
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"Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later."
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"One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory."
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"Every rep I did on chin-ups, on squats with 500 pounds, I never said, to myself, 'Oh, my God, another rep.' I said, 'Yes, another rep, because that will make my dream turn into a reality.'"
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"My father [Joe Germanotta] opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there."
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"I could find David Beckham naked in a cardboard box on my doorstep and I would drop him off at the pound."
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"I took up an offer for me to lose 30 pounds in 30 days. It worked. I lost 30 days!"
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"Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that."
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"Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million."
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"Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it."
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"He that needs five thousand pound to live, Is full as poor as he that needs but five."
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"Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!"
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"...I'd have cheerfully thrown Her Majesty and her hundred pounds of baggage to the curb, but that wasn't mature. ~Cat on Annette"
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"I lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life."
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"Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself."
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