"The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it."
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"Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg."
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"The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail; The body should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be felt in its tail."
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"She that paints her Face, thinks of her Tail."
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"Many dogs can understand almost every word humans say, while humans seldom learn to recognize more than half a dozen barks, if that. And barks are only a small part of the dog language. A wagging tail can mean so many things. Humans know that it means a dog is pleased, but not what a dog is saying about his pleasedness."
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"I went into the foreign service because I was interested in politics. But, in 1991, when I joined, I didn't see much of an opportunity to be involved in federal politics as a Conservative. We were at the tail end of the Brian Mulroney era. I wanted to do something non-partisan as a way of preparing for a role in our politics later."
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"Nobody ever kicked a dog wagging its tail"
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"The white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them."
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"The Americans are stuck in Iraq and have no way out. They are like a wolf whose tail has been caught in a trap."
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"The so-called sexual revolution is not, as advertised, a liberation of sexual behavior but rather its reversal. In former days, even under Victoria, sexual intercourse was the natural end and culmination of heterosexual relations. Now one begins with genital overtures instead of a handshake, then waits to see what will turn up (e.g., might become friends later). Like dogs greeting each other nose to tail and tail to nose."
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"I can be busy for three years and you may not even know what I'm busy doing because you only see me in a few scenes here or there, but I've been working my tail off because there's just not a lot."
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"Every time you get the world by the tail, she thought, you gotta remember there's teeth on the other end."
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"He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself."
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"I've never wanted to just ride on coat tails. I don't know, if you don't earn something then it doesn't feel as good."
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"What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me."
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"The men are mostly so slow, their thoughts overrun 'em, an' they can only catch 'em by the tail. I can count a stocking-top while a man's getting's tongue ready; an' when he outs wi' his speech at last, there's little broth to be made on't. It's your dead chicks take the longest hatchin'."
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"Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig's tail you can never make a good shaft.]"
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"The higher the Ape goes, the more he shewes his taile. [The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.]"
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"He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies."
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"We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality."
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