"Musick helps not the tooth-ach."
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"The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people."
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"No man should live longer than his teeth."
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"His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth."
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"We'll need to make a litter to carry him," said Osha. "No use," said Luwin. "I'm dying, woman." "You can't," said Rickon angrily. "No you can't." Beside him, Shaggydog bared his teeth and growled. The maester smiled. "Hush now, child, I'm much older than you. I can . . . die as I please."
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"Nature shaped the claw to trap, and the tooth to kill, but the thorn...the thorn's only purpose is to hurt."
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"The Cheshire Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt it ought to be treated with respect."
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"A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. Hence it is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which always remains highly valued, as salt does, and never becomes stupid like salt."
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"Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great caution. Take the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman; if you have witnesses, you will find she did it with a knife; but if you take simply the aspect of the pencil, you will say that she did it with her teeth."
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"It was like pulling teeth trying to get me to L.A. I hated it for so long, but now I've got this great life here."
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"Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers."
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"Somehow you've been voted something for a magazine, and it's a complete mystery to me. I wake up and I have to look at that head when I brush my teeth every morning, you know. And it's weird. And it's unpleasant at times."
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"What is this word that broke through the fence of your teeth, Atreides?"
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"Everybody has to have their little tooth of power. Everybody wants to be able to bite."
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"There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches."
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"You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth."
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"I harbor a secret urge to whack a salesman in the face, crack his teeth and put red bumps around his eyes."
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