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• A timid dog barks more violently than it bites. Curtius Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Dog, Bark

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• The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Dog, Men, Poison

  "An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog" l. 29 (1766)

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• Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets, With a third dog one of the two dogs meets; With angry teeth he bites him to the bone, And this dog smarts for what that dog has done.

  Henry Fielding

  Dog, Smart, Fighting

  Henry Fielding (1765). “Tom Thumb the Great. An opera. By Henry Fielding. Set to music after the Italian manner, by Mr. Arne, etc”, p.24

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• The fangs of a bear, and the tusks of a wild boar, do not bite worse and make deeper gashes than a goose-quill sometimes; no, not even the badger himself, who is said to be so tenacious of his bite that he will not give over his hold till he feels his teeth meet and the bones crack.

  James Howell

  Giving, Teeth, Cracks

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• I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.

  Izaak Walton

  Rivers, Four, Six

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1859). “The Complete Angler”, p.151

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• We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.

  Edmund Burke

  Hands, Ingratitude

  Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770)

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• Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. ... It preserves things from corruption - even as it corrodes other things with its bite. A little of it fertilizes the land; a lot sterilizes it.

  Margaret Visser

  Men, Rocks, Land

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• The world doesn't go around on love between men and women. Lovers get very little done. But friends do. When you are past middle life - and I hope you have the rich experience of love along the way - don't think everything is all over. Don't regret the vanished cocktail when the stuffed turkey is about to come in. Flip out your napkin and bite into it! Friends you can gather around you in the later years of life are worth the whole thing.

  Marie Dressler

  Regret, Past, Love Is

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• If I am going up a ladder, and a dog begins to bite at my ankles, I can do one of two things - either turn round and kick out at the it, or simply go on up the ladder. I prefer to go up the ladder!

  Maria Montessori

  Dog, Two, Challenges

  MARIA MONTESSORI “HER LIFE AND WORK”

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• The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood ... Life elsewhere was real and slippery and struggled in the arms like a big fish dying in air.

  Mae West

  Real, Cutting, Air

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• The hostility of this landscape teaches me how to be quiet and unobtrusive, how to find grace among spiders with a poisonous bite. I sat on a lone boulder in the midst of the curlews. By now, they had grown accustomed to me. This too, I found encouraging-that in the face of stressful intrusions, we can eventually settle in. One begins to almost trust the intruder as a presence that demands greater intent toward life. On a day like today when the air is dry and smells of salt, I have found my open space, my solitude, and sky. And I have found the birds who require it.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Smell, Space, Air

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• On more than one occasion, the camera has cut to me after a break as I'm still trying to swallow the last bite of cookie. Those of you who have thought to yourselves, 'That guy talks like he has marbles in his mouth,' should know that they are not marbles, but oatmeal cookies.

  Lester Holt

  Cutting, Oatmeal, Guy

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• And when pain bites, men bargain. Boys too. We twist and turn, we plead and beg, we offer our tormentors what he wants so that the hurting will stop. And when there is no torturer to placate, no hooded man with hot irons and tongs, just a burn you can't escape, we bargain with God, or ourselves, depending on the size of our egos.

  Mark Lawrence

  Hurt, Pain, Boys

  Mark Lawrence (2012). “King of Thorns”, p.178, Penguin

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• It's time that we move from good words to good works, from sound bites to sound solutions.

  Hillary Clinton

  Moving, Sound, Politics

  "Today on the Presidential Campaign Trail". www.foxnews.com. February 20, 2008.

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• Sometimes life turns out hard, Isabel. Sometimes it just bites right through you. And sometimes, just when you think it's done its worst, it comes back and takes another chunk.

  M. L. Stedman

  Life, Thinking, Done

  M.L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans: A Novel”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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• Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Cooking, Bait

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.94

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• Lucy took a single plain donut from the bag and held it for me to take a bite. Tender and light and still warm from the frying. Not too sugary.

  Robert Crais

  Food, Light, Cooking

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• I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.

  Pablo Picasso

  Way, Painting, Habit

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• Jealousy, the old worm that bites.

  Aphra Behn

  Jealousy, Worms

  Aphra Behn, Jane Spencer (1998). “The Rover: The Feigned Courtesans ; The Lucky Chance ; The Emperor of the Moon”, p.233, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

  Jonathan Swift

  Nails, Mindfulness, Scratches

  Jonathan Swift (2011). “Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings”, p.625, Bantam Classics

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• Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it.

  Anne Bancroft

  Apples, Want, Pupils

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• I saw a dog in a cage. And that cage had a sign on it that said, 'I bite.' And I was like, 'That is good to know doggy, but that's not the most important thing about you. You should make a sign that says, 'I make signs.''

  Doug Benson

  Dog, Important, Saws

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• An artist should always bite the hand that feeds him - but not too hard.

  Nam June Paik

  Artist, Hands, Should

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• My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Revenge, Hoe, Lust

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1911). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect ("Glossina morsitans") whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist ("Mendax interminabilis").

  Ambrose Bierce

  Nature, Insomnia, Novelists

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.226, 谷月社

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