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• The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.

  Alexander Smith

  Life And Love, Flipping A Coin, Needs

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.45, tredition

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• Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint.

  Billy Connolly

  Soccer, Thinking, Allies

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• Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home to eat pone, sip mint juleps, and flog the field hands. This more than anything cultivated my life-long aversion to bicycles.

  Tennessee Williams

  Father, Home, Cycling

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• Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don't think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year.

  Alice Hoffman

  Summer, Stars, Thinking

  Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.122, Penguin

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• I'm from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking mint tea definitely comes from reading Paul Bowles.

  Patti Smith

  Drinking, Reading, Ideas

  "The Private World of Patti Smith". Interview with Joan Juliet Buck, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 30, 2015.

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• Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun, and with him rise weeping.

  William Shakespeare

  Vegetables, Hot, Herbs

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. 103

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• My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a cashmere blanket.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Lying, Intuition, Important

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• My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce.

  Charles Farrar Browne

  Wife, Lambs, Sauce

  Charles Farrar Browne “The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 7”, Library of Alexandria

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• They say no land remains to be discovered, no continent is left unexplored. But the whole world is out there, waiting, just waiting for me. I want to do things-- I want to walk the rain-soaked streets of London, and drink mint tea in Casablanca. I want to wander the wastelands of the Gobi desert and see a yak. I think my life's ambition is to see a yak. I want to bargain for trinkets in an Arab market in some distant, dusty land. There's so much. But, most of all, I want to do things that will mean something.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Travel, Rain, Ambition

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• I wouldn’t treat a romantic scene any differently than any other scene. I would really say the biggest preparation was chewing gum and breath mints! For a kissing scene, it’s all about the breath mints!

  Alice Englert

  Kissing, Preparation, Gum

  "Alice Englert Spills Beautiful Creatures Secrets!". Interview with Kaitlin Menza, www.seventeen.com. February 7, 2013.

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• The coolest gift I've ever gotten from a fan was from the Franklin Mint. It was a knife, and it had a picture of General Wade Hampton, who my oldest son is named after. It's a collector's item and came with a case and a stand and everything.

  Josh Turner

  Son, Knives, Fans

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• Tic Tacs are the maracas of breath mints.

  Demetri Martin

  Tic Tacs, Tics, Breaths

  Twitter post from Nov 16, 2011

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• I am too rich already, for my eyes
  Mint gold, while my heart cries.

  Mervyn Peake

  Eye, Gold, Rich

  "Peake's progress: selected writings and drawings of Mervyn Peake".

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• I come from down south, where vegetation does not know its place. Honeysuckle can work through cracks in your walls and strangle you while you sleep. Kudzu can completely shroud a house and a car parked in the yard in one growing season. Wisteria can lift a building off its foundation, and certain terrifying mints spread so rapidly that just the thought of them on a summer night can make your hair stand on end.

  Bailey White

  Summer, Wall, Sleep

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• He tastes like mint and need, as he overpowers me with his tongue.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Needs, Taste, Tongue

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• Young playmates of the rose and daffodil, Be careful ere ye enter in, to fill Your baskets high With fennel green, and balm, and golden pines Savory latter-mint, and columbines.

  John Keats

  Rose, Green, Golden

  Harry Buxton Forman, John Keats (1817). “The complete works of John Keats”, p.192

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• I loved Morocco. It's very exotic and different from anywhere I've ever been. I had an amazing day there in the high Atlas Mountains near Mount Tamadot, when I rode by donkey into a Berber village and drank some mint tea with a Berber family. It was exceptional.

  Isla Fisher

  Tea, Mountain, Morocco

  "Definitely Maybe - Isla Fisher interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Use your head, Sep. Loads of wolverines. Hanging around waiting for super. Gtting excited. eating mint blasts. so what do you think they do?' it must be here. they can't have eaten that... i dunno, Nik, what do they do?' POO.

  Angie Sage

  Thinking, Waiting, Use

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• He held the book up to his nose. It smelled like Old Spice talcum powder. Books that smelled that way were usually fun to read. He threw the book onto his bed and went to his suitcase. After rummaging about for awhile, he came up with a long, narrow box of chocolate-covered mints. He loved to eat candy while he read, and lots of his favorite books at home had brown smudges on the corners of the pages.

  John Bellairs

  Fun, Book, Home

  John Bellairs (2002). “House with a Clock in Its Walls / Ghost in the Mirror Flip Book”, Puffin

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• Economy, the poor man's mint.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Men, Economics, Economy

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849). “The Poetical Works”, p.353

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• How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society.

  Samuel Barber

  Artist, Dinner, Awful

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• I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.

  Andrew Motion

  Writing, Two, Tea

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• The irony is that Iraq actually has one of the richest and most sophisticated cuisines in the world. So many classic American or European foods - ceviche, albondigas, even the mint julep - have roots in Iraqi cuisine, which was a crossroads of Persian and Arab and Turkic traditions. The oldest written recipes in the world are from Iraq!

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Roots, Iraq, Recipes

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In fact we put so many things in our mouths we constantly have to be reminded what not to eat. Look at that little package of silicon gel that's inside your sneakers. It says DO NOT EAT for a reason. Somewhere sometime some genius bought a pair of sneakers and said Ooooh look. They give you free mints with the shoes

  Morgan Spurlock

  Sneakers, Shoes, Giving

  Morgan Spurlock (2006). “Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America”, p.10, Penguin

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• If God takes away from us the old, wrinkled, beat-up dollar bill we have clutched so desperately, it is only because He wants to exchange it for the whole Federal mint, the entire treasury! He is saying to us, 'I have in store for you all the resources of heaven. Help yourself.'

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heaven, Dollar Bills, Dollars

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