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«Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.»
«I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles. I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags. I see myriad worlds of the universe as small seeds of fruit, and the greatest lake on Earth as a drop of oil on my foot.»
«There's many a thing which they - Whose coats are tattered never dare to say»
«Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
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coarse, disadvantage, ever so, proportioned, rags, tatter, tattered, tatters, well-proportioned
«Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it - torn up to irrecoverable tatters.»
Author: Samuel Butler
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basket, consign, consigned, consigns, irrecoverable, tatter, tattered, tatters, waste-paper basket, wastepaper basket
«Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide them all»
«Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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furred, gowns, Robes, tatter, tattered, tatters
«Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and fur'd gowns hide them all»
«An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress»
«An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.»
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