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• A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Criticism, Green

  1933 All I Survey,'On Jonathan Swift'.

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• I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man?s table, where one is fain to sit mincing and chewing his meat an hour together, drink little, be always wiping his fingers and his chops, and never dare to cough nor sneeze, though he has never so much a mind to it, nor do a many things which a body may do freely by one?s self.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Men, Self, Turkeys

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• And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Eye, Delight, Littles

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning (1872). “A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”, p.142

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• To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.

  William Blake

  Eye, Criticism, Shadow

  William Blake, David V. Erdman, Harold Bloom (1982). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.655, Univ of California Press

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• I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left bare on every hand, As if the ebbing tide would flow no more.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Weed, Rocks, Hands

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.930, Delphi Classics

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• Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn.

  Thomas Hood

  Red, Corn, Poppies

  Thomas Hood (1860). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.148

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• A health to the nut-brown lass, With the hazel eyes: let it pass. . . . . As much to the lively grey 'Tis as good i' th' night as day: . . . . She's a savour to the glass, And excuse to make it pass.

  John Suckling

  Eye, Night, Glasses

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• When white and black and brown and every other color decide they're going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.

  Barry Goldwater

  Christian, Race, Color

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• The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, That wholly consisted of lines like these.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Daughter, Hair, Lines

  Charles Stuart Calverley, “The Auld Wife”

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• See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss.

  Philip James Bailey

  Sunshine, Gold, Beard

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.146

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• The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song.

  Charles Kuralt

  Song, Winter, Singing

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• Painting it was hard graft... in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that varies from bistre to deep wine-red and to pale, blond reddish.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Wine, Yellow, Black

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• With hand on the spade and heart in the sky Dress the ground and till it; Turn in the little seed, brown and dry, Turn out the golden millet. Work, and your house shall be duly fed: Work, and rest shall be won; I hold that a man had better be dead Than alive when his work is done.

  Alice Cary

  Work, Heart, Men

  Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.164

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• The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery.

  Ernie Pyle

  Feet, Light, Soldier

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• It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries; I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes. For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills, And April's in the West wind, and daffodils.

  John Masefield

  Eye, Wind, Land

  John Masefield (1922). “The Poems and Plays of John Masefield: Poems”

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• As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister.

  Boris Johnson

  People, England, Prime

  "Johnson makes gaffes on all fronts" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2006.

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• Most eyes have more than one color, but usually they're related. Blue eyes may have two shades of blue, or blue and gray, or blue and green, or even a fleck or two of brown. Most people don't notice that.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Eye, Blue, Color

  Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.70, Ballantine Books

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• When you look at the things people are really fed up with, like the collapse of the pension system, like the failure to get money to the frontline of the health service, Gordon Brown is more responsible for that than any other politician including Tony Blair

  George Osborne

  Failure, People, Looks

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• Scatman, fat man, black and white and brown man, tell me 'bout the color of your soul.

  Scatman John

  Black And White, Men, Color

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• Personally, I don't do certain things. I read articles and they'll pit me against Lil' Kim like I'm going to smash them down. I never said any of that; I never said I didn't like Kim or Foxy [Brown].

  Jean Grae

  Lil Kim, Pits, Said

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's no surprise that at the same time that American universities have engaged in a serious commitment to diversity, they have been thought-prisons. We are not talking about diversity in any real way. We are talking about brown, black, white versions of the same political ideology.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Real, Commitment, White

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• When I discovered blues - I was 12-years-old - I didn't discover it in America where it was from; I discovered it from Fleetwood Mac - the original Peter Green Fleetwood Mac, Saveloy Brown - like British blues interpretations of it,' which then, when I started the liner notes and seeing all these names, I was like, 'Who's Willie Dixon?' Then I go to the record store and ask the guy there and he goes, 'Oh, you don't know anything.' And so, to me, that's the root of most of it anyway.

  Paul Weller

  Years, Names, Roots

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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• I'm black, so, you know, I'm again with black folk, but it's a love that spills over to vanilla suburbs and red reservations and brown barrios and yellow slices.

  Cornel West

  Yellow, Black, Red

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• Most importantly for me growing up, it was a spirituals, it was a gospels, it was James Cleveland, Aretha Franklin, Marion Williams; and then it was Curtis Mayfield - The Main Ingredient, The Whispers, Black Blue Magic, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Luther Vandross - that music helped me preserves my sanity, help me preserve whatever dignity I was able to preserve, helping to keep going. It was a source of tremendous strength in my life.

  Cornel West

  Growing Up, Blue, Black

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• I was, like, a brown belt, which is pretty good. I entered a tournament once, and I punched the guy in the throat and got disqualified. I realized - I don't know if you're familiar with "Karate Kid," but the bad guys in that are called Cobra Kai, and they're, like, the evil karate guys. And then when I went to the tournament, I realized that's what we were; we were like the Cobra Kai of the Jewish karate community.

  Seth Rogen

  Kids, Evil, Community

  "Seth Rogen, Not Such A Loser In Real Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 2, 2009.

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