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• The horseman serves the horse, The neat-herd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'Tis the day of the chattel, Web to weave, and corn to grind, Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Meat, Corn

  "Ode Inscribed toW. H. Channing" l. 50 (1847)

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• Our assaults on the ecosystem are so powerful, so numerous, so finely interconnected, that although the damage they do is clear, it is very difficult to discover how it was done. By which weapon? In whose hand? Are we driving the ecosphere to destruction simply by our growing numbers? By our greedy accumulation of wealth? Or are the machines which we have built to gain this wealth-the magnificent technology that now feeds us out of neat packages, that clothes us in man-made fibers, that surrounds us with new chemical creations-at fault?

  Barry Commoner

  Powerful, Technology, Men

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• I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

  Julia Child

  Thinking, Humane Way, Meat

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.

  Winston Churchill

  White, Black, Sides

  Winston Churchill (1965). “A Man of Destiny: Winston S. Churchill”

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• Take painsto write a neat round, plain hand, and you will find it a great convenience through life to write a small and compact hand as well as a fair and legible one.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Writing, Hands, Convenience

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• There is something indefinably keen and wan about her anatomy, and she has a watchful way of looking out of the corners of her eyes without turning her head which could be pleasantly dispensed with, especially when she is in an ill humour and near knives. Through all the good taste of her dress and little adornments, these objections so express themselves that she seems to go about like a very neat she-wolf imperfectly tamed.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Eye, Knives

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak house. [20 numbers in 19 monthly pts., orig. wrappers.].”, p.111

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• A brisk, bright, blue-eyed fellow, a very neat figure and rather under the middle size, never out of the way and never in it.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Blue, Interesting

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Christmas Stories from "Household Words" and "All the Year Round"”, p.120

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• I'm a neat freak... It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know?

  Jann Wenner

  Organized Mind, Freak, Desks

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• If you sprinkle when you tinkle please be neat and wipe the seat.

  Simone Elkeles

  Wipe, Sprinkles, Please

  Simone Elkeles (2013). “Return to Paradise”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• I was always a neat kid. I never wanted my hands dirty. I wasn't a dirty kid. A lot of kids like to run around. If I was rolling around the dirt, I went home and took a shower. That's just the way I was. I'm not sure. I might have been born with it.

  Mark Teixeira

  Running, Dirty, Home

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• Silence is only commendable
  In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible.

  William Shakespeare

  Silence, Maids, Tongue

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 111

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• Can we really conquer chaos so easily? If that were so, I should be able to prune the pandemonium of my own soul into something neat and tidy rather than this maze of wants and needs and misgivings that has me forever feeling as if I cannot fit into the landscape of things.

  Libba Bray

  Neat And Tidy, Forever, Soul

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine and it goes out of order; shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new position.

  Robertson Davies

  Knowledge, Order, Healthy

  Robertson Davies (1952). “Tempest-tost”, Clarke Irwin

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• I'm going to live forever, or die trying !

  Spider Robinson

  Death, Suicide, Forever

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• English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit. ... Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows, passion-flowers cross-pollinate in wild heliotrope abandon, lotuses writhe with poppies in the sweet warm beds, kumquats ripen, open and plop flatly to the floor-and outside, in a neat, trimly-hoed kitchen-garden, English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.

  Alan Coren

  Sweet, Flower, Passion

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• 'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried neat's tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stock-fish! O for breath to utter what is like thee! you tailor's-yard, you sheath, you bowcase; you vile standing-tuck!

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Skins, Yards

  1596-7 Henry IV Part One, act 2, sc.5, l.245-52.

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• Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves.

  A. S. J. Tessimond

  Cat, Wind, Shadow

  Cats (1934) p. 20

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• Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

  C. S. Lewis

  Reality, Complicated, Odd

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.48, HarperCollins UK

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• I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Beautiful, Song, Philosophy

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• I asked the Zebra, are you black with white stripes? Or white with black stripes? And the zebra asked me, Are you good with bad habits? Or are you bad with good habits? Are you noisy with quiet times? Or are you quiet with noisy times? Are you happy with some sad days? Or are you sad with some happy days? Are you neat with some sloppy ways? Or are you sloppy with some neat ways? And on and on and on and on and on and on he went. I’ll never ask a zebra about stripes...again.

  Shel Silverstein

  Zebras, White, Black

  Shel Silverstein, “Who Does She Think She Is....”

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  The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.

  Rob Bell

  God, Faith, Jesus

  Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.

  C. S. Forester

  Mom, Mother, Drinking

  "The African Queen". Book by C. S. Forester, 1935.

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• Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Blow, Men, Hair

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• The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

  Molly Ivins

  Confusion, Democracy, Beloved

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• I tell aspiring writers that you have to find what you must write. When you find it, you will know, because the subject matter won’t let you go. It’s not enough to write simply because you think it would be neat to be published. You have to be compelled to write. If you’re not, nothing else that you do matters.

  Rick Riordan

  Writing, Thinking, Would Be

  "Advice For Writers". Q&A, rickriordan.com.

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