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• Our natural reason looks at marriage and turns up its nose and says, Alas! Must I rock the baby? wash its diapers? make its bed? smell its stench? stay at nights with it? take care of it when it cries? heal its rashes and sores? and on top of that care for my spouse, provide labor at my trade, take care of this and take care of that? do this and do that? and endure this and endure that? Why should I make such a prisoner of myself?

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Baby, Night, Rocks

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• Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

  Mark Twain

  Giving, Lavender

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• The wise duck keeps his mouth shut when he smells frogs.

  Ernest Bramah

  Wise, Ducks, Mouths

  Ernest Bramah (2016). “THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more”, p.440, e-artnow

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• Heart disease has changed my eating habits, but I still cook bacon for the smell.

  George Carlin

  Heart, Disease, Eating

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Like my boy tells me; if it looks like a rat and smells like a rat, by golly, it is a rat.

  Terrell Owens

  Boys, Looks, Rats

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• Wine give strenght to weary men. and
  And wine can of their wits the wise beguile.
  Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile. and
  Let those who drink not, but austerely dine,
  Dry up in law; the muses smell of wine. and
  No poem was ever written by a drinker of water. and
  Bacchus opens the gate of the heart. and
  Might to inspire new hopes and powerful
  To drown the bitterness of cares.

  Homer

  Wise, Powerful, Heart

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• I really like the smell of the tennis balls, the new ones. I don't need to do it, but it's just my habit, what I do on the court when we change for the new tennis balls. I just smell them. Maybe it's for luck. I've been doing it all my life.

  Dominika Cibulkova

  Tennis, Luck, Needs

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• I love the smell of diapers; I even like when they're wet and you smell them all warm like a baked good. I love the smell of Balmex. Love it.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Good Love, Diapers, Stupid Celebrity

  "Sarah Jessica Parker" by Sarah Bernard, www.elle.com. November 5, 2009.

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• Every man knows the smell of his own fart.

  Confucius

  Men, Fart, Knows

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• Born enemies don't fight. Nations you would say were designed to go to war against each other by their skins, their language, their smell; always jealous of each other, always hating each other; they're not the ones who fight. You will find the real antagonists in nations fate has groomed and made ready for the same war.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Real, War, Hate

  "'La Guerre De Troie Naura Pas Lieu' ('Tiger at the Gates')". Play by Jean Giraudoux, translated by Christopher Fry, 1935.

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• The sweet smell of the South, of Camellias and Azaleas, clings to Beaufort's ancient and historic buildings.

  Walter Cronkite

  Sweet, Azaleas, Ancient

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• Don't underestimate the value people place on authenticity. Politicians listen to the focus groups and say the things they think people want to hear. But after 30 years of reading consumers, I know that they can smell phonies.

  Rochelle B Lazarus

  Reading, Thinking, Years

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• For Father's Day, my kids always give me a bottle of cologne called English Leather. It's appropriate! To them I always smell like a wallet.

  Robert Orben

  Father, Kids, Giving

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• Unfriending me when I didn’t even know we were friends? It’s like breaking wind when you’re home alone. If I can’t smell you, knock yourself out.

  George Takei

  Home, Wind, Knows

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• You are therefore able to run on this path, on which God is found above all vision, hearing, taste, touch, smell, speech, sense, rationality, and intellect. It is found as none of these, but rather above everything as God of gods and King of all kings. Indeed, the King of the world of the intellect is the King of kings and Lord of lords in the universe.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Running, Kings, Vision

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• My mom was there, in some form, in some sense, in some universe. My mom was still my mom, even if she only lived in books and door locks and the smell of fried tomatoes and old paper. She lived.

  Kami Garcia

  Mom, Book, Doors

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2013). “Beautiful Creatures: The Complete Series”, p.328, Penguin UK

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• I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Jumping, Black, Firsts

  "Fabulous Friends". Interview with Chloë Sevigny, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 22, 2014.

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• There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.

  Olivia Thirlby

  New York, Growing Up, Sight

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Books smell. Musty and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer, it has no texture, no context. It's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then the getting of knowledge should be tangible, it should be...smelly.

  Rupert Giles

  Book, Gone, Texture

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• If you're going to have a character appear in a story long enough to sell a newspaper, he'd better be real enough that you can smell his breath.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Real, Character, Long

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• I happen to be a pessimist, and maybe that's a good thing because I don't stop to smell the roses - which is not a good personal thing. I don't stop and enjoy those moments. Always on to the next and never in the moment.

  Nicki Minaj

  Rose, Next, Good Person

  "Nicki Minaj Continues Newsstand Domination With Complex Cover" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. March 20, 2012.

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• They say dogs ignore their reflections in mirrors because they can't smell them. Dogs, unlike people, are not fooled by what they see.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Dog, Reflection, Mirrors

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• Vodka is a very deceptive drink, because you drink it and you think, "What is this? This is pointless! It's - you can't taste it, you can't smell it... Why did we waste our money on this, bloody - why are we on a traffic island?"

  Dylan Moran

  Taste, Drink, Vodka

  "Monster". Documentary, Comedy, 2004.

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• The bacillus of efficiency has also attacked football, and some dare to ask what's the point in playing well. I feel tempted to tell about the time they dared to ask Borges what is poetry for, to which he answered: 'What is a sunrise for? What are caresses for? What is the smell of coffee for?'

  Jorge Valdano

  Football, Coffee, Sunrise

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• I like the touch and the smell of all the pretty dresses you wear.

  Peter Gabriel

  Dresses

  Song: Intruder

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