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• Nobody needs a mink coat but the mink.

  S. Z. Sakall

  Needs, Mink Coats, Mink

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• To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.

  Dennis Banks

  Running, Honor, Bags

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• Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat.

  Lexa Doig

  Cute, Suicide, Names

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• But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party.

  Earl Browder

  Party, Effort, Followers

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• A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.

  Sally Schneider

  Vegetables, People, Water

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• Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

  Peter De Vries

  Soul, Tweed, Confession

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• I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked.

  William Butler Yeats

  Song, Eye, Fool

  "A Coat" l. 8 (1914)

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• Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous.

  Albert Einstein

  Years, Leather Jackets, Hair

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  I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Change, Peace, Boys

  Thomas Jefferson (1997). “Thomas Jefferson, His Words and Vision”, p.18, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Believe, Men, Years

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.34, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I'm definitely a lash girl. I feel they are my best feature. I have tried lots of mascaras. I was drawn to Lancome Doll Lashes recently. Not only because of the name, but it smells like roses! I usually add a few coats of it for a night out.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Girl, Night, Names

  Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. April 17, 2012.

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• If the first button of one's coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.

  Giordano Bruno

  Buttons, Firsts, Crooked

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• Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4008, Delphi Classics

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• I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Shoes, Pants, Hats

  "Charlie Chaplin and the Tramp: the birth of a hero" by Pamela Hutchinson, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2014.

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• "I should hope so," Laigle replied, "for my coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and 1 only feel its presence because it keeps me warm."

  Victor Hugo

  Friendship, Hurt, Wrinkles

  "Les Miserables".

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• Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.

  Ludwig Bemelmans

  Girl, Food, Cooking

  Ludwig Bemelmans (1964). “La bonne table”

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• While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Dog, Horse, Cat

  "What We Can Learn From Animals" by Rita Mae Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedly long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.

  Otis Williams

  Winter, Names, Long

  Otis Williams (2002). “Temptations”, p.49, Cooper Square Press

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• There's a trench coat and a tragedy in your future.

  Jim Norton

  Funny, Humor, Tragedy

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• An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

  William Butler Yeats

  Time, Men, Elderly

  "Sailing to Byzantium" l. 9 (1928)

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• Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

  John Updike

  Baby, Art, Shoes

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• I wanted to be a pharmacist. I liked the way our local pharmacist was always dressed in a nice white coat; he looked very calm, you'd give him money, and he'd give you something that you wanted to buy.

  Walter Matthau

  Nice, White, Giving

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• It's the opposite of that. Engineers in lab coats have created a musical experience that is so crisp and clean, it can literally improve your hearing.

  Barry Goldberg

  Opposites, Musical, Labs

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• Gareth turned to Gregory. “Your sister will be safe with me,” he said. “I give you my vow.” “Oh, I have no worries on that score,” Gregory said with a bland smile. “The real question is—will you be safe with her?” It was a good thing, Gareth later reflected, that Hyacinth had already quit the room to fetch her coat and her maid. She probably would have killed her brother on the spot.

  Julia Quinn

  Brother, Real, Giving

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• We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Stories, Happens

  Terry Tempest Williams (1984). “Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajoland”, p.92, UNM Press

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