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• Dogs are not people dressed up in fur coats, and to deny them their nature is to do them great harm.

  Jeanne Schinto

  Dog, People, Training

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• For the record, surgeries aren't pretty. there's a hideous sense of intimately inappropriate exposure to another human being, and it feel something like accidentally walking in on a naked parent. Only there's more gore. Bits are exposed that just shouldn't be out in the open, and they're covered in blood. Its embarrassing, disgusting, and unsettling all at the same time." Harry Dresden, Turn Coat.

  Jim Butcher

  Blood, Parent, Naked

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• You are a beautiful soul hidden by the trench coat of the ego.

  Michael Dolan

  Beautiful, Ego, Soul

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• He crossed the street toward the man in the trench coat, which left me with two choices: follow my dad and see what was going on, or do what I was told. I decided on the slightly less dangerous path. I went to retrieve my sister

  Rick Riordan

  Dad, Men, Two

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

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• Don't wear fur! Did you know, a single fur coat takes fifteen trees, just for the protest signs?

  Emo Philips

  Tree, Fur, Fifteen

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• A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted-the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Temptation, Poor

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• The advantages of whiskey over dogs are legion. Whiskey does not need to be periodically wormed, it does not need to be fed, it never requires a special kennel, it has no toenails to be clipped or coat to be stripped. Whiskey sits quietly in its special nook until you want it. True, whiskey has a nasty habit of running out, but then so does a dog.

  W. C. Fields

  Running, Dog, Special

  W. C. Fields (2016). “W.C. Fields by Himself: His Intended Autobiography with Hitherto Unpublished Letters, Notes, Scripts, and Articles”, p.150, Rowman & Littlefield

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• There is nothing more delightful than to scoop up a wild joey in your arms and smell the wind and eucalyptus in the coats of the gentle kangaroo or the deep-earth smell of tiny wallabies. It is wonderful to see the trust in their eyes and the gradual realization that you mean them no harm.

  Stella Reid

  Nature, Mean, Eye

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• If you're not a full-time missionary with a missionary badge pinned on your coat, now is the time to paint one on your heart-painted, as Paul said, 'not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God.'

  Neil L. Andersen

  Heart, Ink, Missionary

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• Art's a staple. Like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Those who think it is a luxury have only a fragment of a mind. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.

  Irving Stone

  Art, Wine, Winter

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• You know I hate disappointing even one person, and I really hate disappointing everyone but I love burlington coat factory

  Michael Scott

  Hate, Disappointing, Factories

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• Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Change, Art, Records

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.67, 谷月社

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• In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find — and I hear from other people that they agree — that getting rid of clutter gives a disproportionate boost to happiness.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Happy Life, People, Giving

  "Test Yourself: Do You Have Clutter Mentality?" by Gretchen Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• I’m beginning to sense a theme,” Mircea said, tossing his suit coat over a buckskin-covered chair. A moose head with huge, outspread antlers loomed over it, its bright glass eyes looking oddly lifelike in the low light. Mircea took in the room, his expression slightly repulsed yet fascinated. “I believe there is only one thing to say at this point.” What’s that?” Yee haw,” he said gravely, and took me down like a rodeo calf.

  Karen Chance

  Believe, Eye, Glasses

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.1317, Penguin

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• Cordings make the best Covert coats, corduroys, moleskins and all the accoutrements. When I need a covert coat I get it from Cordings rather than make one myself and I'm a tailor so I should know! Cordings is without doubt, the best at what they do; they produce a quality which surpasses any other company of its kind in Britain.

  Mark Powell

  Doubt, Quality, Needs

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• You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear through all eternity.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Children, Weaving, Inheritance

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• Foxes are rats in expensive coats. What are foxes associated with? Evil, wily, conniving, duplicitous, Fox News - worst news service on the planet and the evilest.

  Rich Hall

  America, Evil, News

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• Nobody really needs a mink coat... Except the mink.

  Glenda Jackson

  Needs, Vegetarian, Vegan

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• If there 's a hole in a' your coats, I rede ye tent it; A chiel 's amang ye takin' notes, And, faith, he 'll prent it.

  Robert Burns

  Faith, Tents, Holes

  Robert Burns (1841). “The Poetical Works of Robert Burns; with a Memoir of the Author's Life and a Glossary”, p.188

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• There are your enemies, the Red Coats and the Tories. They are ours, or this night Molly Stark sleeps a widow!

  John Stark

  Sleep, Night, Enemy

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• For a second, he was still, blinking. Then he shook off all the blankets and coats so that his arms were free and he wrapped them around me as tightly as he could. I felt him shuddering, shuddering against me as he buried his face in my hair. I said, uselessly, "Sam, don't go." Sam cupped my face in his hands and looked me in the eyes. His eyes were yellow, sad, wolf, mine. "These stay the same. Remember that when you look at me. Remember it's me. Please."" — Grace and Sam (Shiver)

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Eye, Hair, Hands

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.250, Scholastic Inc.

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• I knew, as sure as I knew my name, that tomorrow he would send me another coat, in a big fancy box, with a big bow on it. It would be the right size, it would be a top brand, and it would be warm. ............... It was cranberry red, with a removable liner, a detachable hood, and tortoiseshell buttons.

  Charlaine Harris

  Names, Fancy, Red

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.1004, Penguin

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• I've got a sweater." Ben pulled off his coat and held it out for her. "Here." "Thanks, Ben. It's lovely and warm." Then she said, "Ben, I-- I can tell you how I feel about-- about everything. I think you're the best friend I've ever had. I-- I'd lie down and die for you if you wanted me to." "Honey," Ben said. "When I get you to lie down for me it won't be to die.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Lying, Thinking, Sweaters

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• Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Political Opinions, Views, Shapes

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.8, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world’s weather

  Frederick Buechner

  Self, Weather, World

  Frederick Buechner (1991). “Telling Secrets”, Harper San Francisco

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