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• There is something magical about that green coat. I mean that sincerely. It's a very special week, and being able to wear that green jacket. It's made my whole career. It's special.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Mean, Careers, Special

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• O bluebird, welcome back again, Thy azure coat and ruddy vest, Are hues that April loveth best.

  John Burroughs

  Hue, Azure, Vests

  John Burroughs (1909). “Bird Stories from Burroughs: Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs”

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• The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold.

  Edwin Arnold

  Gold, Royal, Dare

  Sir Edwin Arnold (1856). “Griselda: a tragedy: and other poems”, p.235

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• The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song.

  Charles Kuralt

  Song, Winter, Singing

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• Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? / Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect?

  Mary Oliver

  Perfect, Boots, Half

  Mary Oliver (2006). “Thirst: Poems”, p.8, Beacon Press

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• The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive fur coat with no one inside it. One sees many of these coats occupying positions of great responsibility. Hans Andersen's story of the king with no clothes told one bitter and common truth about human nature; but the story of the clothes with no king describes a situation just as common and even more pitiable.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Kings, Responsibility, Clothes

  Evelyn Underhill (2003). “Evelyn Underhill: Essential Writings”

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• Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.

  Daniel Dennett

  Life, Paint, Planets

  "Tech gurus drum up ideas for a better world / Annual Technology Entertainment Design conference pushes leading thinkers, doers to solve big challenges" by Tom Abate, www.sfgate.com. February 26, 2006.

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• A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God.

  John Ruskin

  Dog, Character, Men

  John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters”, p.55

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• Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Funny, Money, Giving

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• It is only all too easy to understand the requirements contained in God's Word ('Give all your goods to the poor.' 'If anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the left.' 'If anyone takes your coat, let him have your cloak also. Rejoice always.' 'Count it sheer joy when you meet various temptations' etc.). The most ignorant, poor creature cannot honestly deny being able to understand God's requirements. But it is tough on the flesh to will to understand it and to then act accordingly. It is not a question of interpretation, but action.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Giving, Joy

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• Walking through a crowd, the village is aglow. Kaleidoscope of loud heartbeats, under coats. Everybody here wanted something more. Searching for a sound we hadn't heard before. And it said, 'Welcome to New York,' It's been waiting for you. It's a new soundtrack, I could dance to this beat forevermore. The lights are so bright, but they never blind me.

  Taylor Swift

  Travel, New York, Light

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• You don`t have the same reaction to a girl walking around the street today in a nightgown and a vintage coat and sneakers, that you did six years ago.

  Marc Jacobs

  Girl, Years, Vintage

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• Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Science, Doctors, Two

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Years, Clothes, Pockets

  Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1856). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.90

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• There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Squirrels, Glasses, Snow

  Essays "Compensation" (1841)

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• The Indian who was laid under a curse, that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all. The dearest events are summer-rain, and we the Para coats that shed every drop. Nothing is left us now but death. We look to that with a grim satisfaction, saying, there at least is reality that will not dodge us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Rain, Reality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.203, Penguin

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• They fought their first action in March of 1775. Embarked on eight small ships, they sailed to the Bahamas and captured a British fort near Nassau, seizing gunpowder and supplies. Later, during the Revolutionary War, Marines fought several engagements in their distinctive green coats, such as helping George Washington to cross the Delaware River, and assisting John Paul Jones on the Bonhomme Richard to capture the British frigate Serapis during their famous sea fight.

  Tom Clancy

  War, Marine, Fighting

  "Marine". Book by Tom Clancy, 1996.

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• How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat. Nature is full of genius. Full of the divinity. So that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beauty, Art, Stars

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.356, New York Review of Books

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• When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Horse, Character, House

  Oliver Goldsmith (1828). “The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale ...”, p.7

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• A simple maiden in her flower, Is worth a hundred coats of arms.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Women, Flower, Simple

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

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• We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: "It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.

  Bernard Malamud

  Country, Apology, Russia

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• Since I'm known as a 'rich person', I feel I have to tip at least $5 each time I check my coat. On top of that, I would have to wear a very expensive coat, and it would have to be insured. Added up, without a topcoat I save over $20,000 a year.

  Aristotle Onassis

  Money, Years, Rich

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• This is what I want: I want to grab my brother’s hand and run back through time, losing years like coats falling from our shoulders.

  Jandy Nelson

  Running, Brother, Fall

  Jandy Nelson (2014). “I'll Give You the Sun”, p.36, Penguin

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• As a revolutionary people, we Americans won a probable victory over the best and biggest army in the world because we learned to fight from the Indians. You can do a lot of damage with a Kentucky rifle from behind a tree. You don't put on a peaked hat and a red coat and white leggings and crossed white bandoleers with a big silver buckle in the center of the X and march uphill into a line of Howitzers loaded with chain and chopped horseshoes.

  James Lee

  Army, Fighting, Kentucky

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• I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.

  Natalia Vodianova

  White, Fake, Saint

  "How I get dressed" by Natalia Vodianova, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2008.

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