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• Today at school I will learn to read at once; then tomorrow I will begin to write, and the day after tomorrow to cipher. Then with my acquirements I will earn a great deal of money, and with the first money I have in my pocket I will immediately buy for my papa a beautiful new cloth coat. But what am I saying? Cloth, indeed! It shall be all made of gold and silver, and it shall have diamond buttons. That poor man really deserves it; for to buy me books and to have me taught he has remained in his shirt sleeves... And in this cold! It is only fathers who are capable of such sacrifices!

  Carlo Collodi

  Beautiful, Father, Book

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• I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me. A nearby field, a ray of sunlight, a little bit of calm along with a bit of bread, not to feel oppressed by the knowledge that I exist, not to demand anything from others, and not to have others demand anything from me - this was denied me, like the spare change we might deny a beggar not because we're mean-hearted but because we don't feel like unbuttoning our coat.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Mean, Rays, Demand

  Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.321, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Running, White, Statistics

  "Daniel Kahneman: 'We're beautiful devices'". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2011.

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• Apparently their numerous tattoos gave them protection against the cold as they had no coats.

  Kim Harrison

  Tattoo, Cold, Protection

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• For the love of ammonites, man! That's just stupid. Why on earth would the Society need to protect unmarried women from bone-dry lectures regarding soil composition? Do your members find themselves whipped into some sort of dusty frenzy, from which no delicate lass would be safe?" Mr. Barrington tugged on his coat. "Sometimes the debate does get heated." Colin turned to her. "Min, Can I just hit him?" "I think that's a bad idea." "run him through with something sharp?

  Tessa Dare

  Running, Stupid, Men

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• Although it was very cold, he wore no coat. I think some English people think coats are for the weak.

  Maureen Johnson

  Thinking, People, Cold

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• I'll need you to get a leash for my monkey, Claude, and also a hat." "Of course, monsieur" "Do you think he needs a little coat as well?" "Perhaps not in this weather, monsieur." "You are right," Magnus said with a sight. "Make it a simple dressing gown, just like mine." "Which one, monsieur?" "The one in rose and silver." "Excellent choice, monsieur.

  Cassandra Clare

  Simple, Thinking, Sight

  "The Bane Chronicles". Book by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan and Maureen Johnson, November 11, 2014.

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• Choose well or die. I don’t care which. Just don’t get blood on my coat.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Blood, Care, Wells

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• I realize how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot remember what color you started with.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Color, Remember

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• My version of an Irish exit has an air of deception to it, because it includes my asking loudly, “Where’s the bathroom?” and making theatrical looking-around gestures like a lost foreign tourist. But then, instead of finding the bathroom, I sneakily grab my coat and leave.

  Mindy Kaling

  Air, Deception, Exit

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• Thank goodness for all the things you are not, thank goodness you're not something someone forgot, and left all alone in some punkerish place, like a rusty tin coat hanger hanging in space.

  Dr. Seuss

  Space, Tin, Thanks

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• I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;Her coat is one of the tabby kind,with tiger stripes and lepard spots.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cat, Names, Stripes

  T. S. Eliot, “The Old Gumbie Cat”

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• I don't know what the country's coming to. Everyone trying to be better than their betters--mink coats and no manners. No wonder Germany's arming.

  Arthur Wimperis

  Country, War, Class

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• Tier on tier of beautiful mountains and streams Blue green vistas locked in white clouds The mist makes my bandana wet Dew coats my grass cape My feet climb in straw sandals My hand holds an old wooden stick When I gaze down again on the dusty world It has become a land of phantoms and dreams to me

  Hanshan

  Beautiful, Dream, Clouds

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• There had been so many easy words between them that Daniel was guilty of nodding every now and then and tuning out the excess. He hadn't known, at the time, that he should have been hoarding these, like bits of sea glass hidden in the pocket of a winter coat to remind him that once it had been summer.

  Jodi Picoult

  Summer, Winter, Glasses

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Boni de Castellane drawing his chins onto his chest; shiny boots, embroidered morning coat, white gloves with black piping, big tie, light vest, the overwashed, bleached impression - 'blanched' as cooks say of boiled vegetables. That was the opposite of a dandy whose stylishness would remain imperceptible to Americans. Boni's style was highly visible.

  Paul Morand

  Morning, Light, Vegetables

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• I don't care what the weather is, I will always wear my coats. I am always freezing, so it works out perfectly for me!

  Kim Kardashian

  Weather, Work Out, Care

  "Kim Kardashian Shows Off Her Baby Bump in Daring See-Through Dress" by Kathy Campbell, www.usmagazine.com. September 27, 2015.

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• I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers.

  John Cheever

  Energy, Fur, Radio

  John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”

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• Science isn't just for scientists and guys in lab coats. It's something that everybody can do.

  Jamie Hyneman

  Guy, Labs, Scientist

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• It was a pretty posh place. They were so used to fur coats that two bears strolled in and ordered lunch and nobody even noticed.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• My childhood was epitomized by my parents who were uneducated but had a doctorate in love. My dad pressed coats and through my mom and dad I learned about love, family and respecting people. They never went to high school but they had within them every element that makes a great American. They had pride and a great work ethic and they knew how to do things the right way.

  Dick Vitale

  Mom, Dad, School

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• So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a man in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck, selling ergot pills. After all the public is entitled to what it wants, isn't it? The Romans knew that and even they lasted four hundred years after they started to putrefy.

  Raymond Chandler

  Mean, Men, Years

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.139, Univ of California Press

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• Having a messy coat closet should not be a big deal in a full life, and yet there's something about getting control of that coat closet that's surprisingly satisfying.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Should, Bigs, Closets

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• I'll let you and Zia have some quality time," she told me. "Just the two of you and your coat.

  Rick Riordan

  Two, Quality, Quality Time

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• I am a person who goes out without a purse. I put things in my coat pockets, so I don't have any accessories.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Pockets, Accessories, Purses

  Source: collider.com

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