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"A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare."
"I don't have perfect teeth, I'm not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say she loves it and doesn't want to change anything."
"Milk Duds. It doesn't' bother me that it gets stuck in my teeth or anything."
"Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?"
"Behind every smile there's teeth."
"If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation."
"Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope."
"He that sleeps feels not the tooth-ache"
"Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison."
"When your teeth are gone, learn to like mush."
"If I could change my appearance, I would have the gap between my front teeth put back in."
"Better a tooth out than always aching."
"No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you."
"When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home."
"I think we were all initially swept along with the Obama win, but he's proven to be simply a set of teeth, and useless in every other regard."
"No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring upon a tower of horn and hide that stands above its fallen mate."
"I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldnt say I have a major sweet tooth."
"The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It's about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it's worth getting your teeth into."
"If you are capable of brushing your teeth in mindfulness, then you will be able to enjoy the time when you take a shower, cook your breakfast, sip your tea."
"The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth."
