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"No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper."
"It's nice to get your glad rags on for awards like the Baftas, but it doesn't happen all the time."
"I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag to bulls."
"I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science....It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaw[s] & holes as sound parts."
"A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion."
"Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other day, in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar."
"Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations."
"I'll be damned if death wears my sadness for glad rags."
"Rub a half potato on your wart and wrap it in a damp cloth. Close your eyes and whirl three times and throw. Then bury rag and spud exactly where they fall."
"Even in rags I am a god,fallen I am divine,high I triumph when down-trod,long I live when slain!"
"So please get your rags And your polishing jars, Somebody has to go polish the stars."
"Harry had the impression that even the barman was listening in. He was wiping the same glass with the filthy rag; it was becoming steadily dirtier."
"and nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old"
"One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless."
"Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back."
"I was an arden Hayes man, but that was natural, for I was pretty young at the time, I have since convinced myself that the political opinioins of a nation are of next to no value, in any case, but that what little rag of value they posess is to be found among the old, rather than among the young."
"First of all, don't mix your hairpins up with mine! You .... Oh! All right, mix your muck with mine. Mix it! Mix your rags with my tatters! Mix it all up."
"We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag."
