Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"All my hurts my garden spade can heal."
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Spades
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Jeaniene Frost
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"How about I let you floss with my jugular as well?"
Plutarch
Philosopher, Historian
"These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade."
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"I tried to tell you that it's not Spade in there." "You could have tried harder. I absolutely never needed to know that Ian was pierced down there."
Jeaniene Frost
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"Kitten, this is my best mate, Charles, but you can call him Spade. Charles, this is Cat, the woman I’ve been telling you about. You can see for yourself that everything I’ve said is…an understatement."
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"I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade."
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"If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do."
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