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• In A Midnight Carol Patricia Davis illuminates the dark and brilliant humanity of Charles Dickens -- the man who lived a rags-to-riches life more remarkable than any of his stories.

  Richard Lederer

  Dark, Men, Humanity

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• God should be most where man is least: So, where is neither church nor priest, And never rag nor form of creed To clothe the nakedness of need,- Where farmer folk in silence meet,- I turn my bell-unsummoned feet; I lay the critic's glass aside, I tread upon my lettered pride, And, lowest-seated, testify To the oneness of humanity; Confess the universal want, And share whatever Heaven may grant. He findeth not who seeks his own, The soul is lost that's saved alone.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Pride, Men, Oneness

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1869). “Among the Hills, and Other Poems”, p.73

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• The world's proverb is, "God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves;" but to our mind, it is just the rich who have most need of Heaven's help. Dives in scarlet is worse off than Lazarus in rags, unless Divine love shall uphold him.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heaven, Mind, Needs

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1990). “The Quotable Spurgeon”, Shaw

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• The man forget not, though in rags he lies,
  And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.

  Mark Akenside

  Lying, Men, Crowns

  Mark Akenside (1808). “The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside ...: Collated with the Best Editions”

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• Darwinian evolution may be the most truthful and powerful idea ever generated by Western Science, but if we continue to illustrate our conviction with an indefensible, unsupported, entirely speculative, and basically rather silly story, then we are clothing a thing of beauty in rags - and we should be ashamed, "for the apparel oft proclaims the man.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Powerful, Silly, Men

  Stephen Jay Gould (1999). “Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History”, Three Rivers Press (CA)

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• It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights. There may be something in this theory, but when their amusements are carried to such a point of luxurious and imaginative perfection it certainly gives them great and even unlimited enjoyment at the time.

  Ada Leverson

  Children, Pie, Giving

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• When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.

  Annie Lennox

  Children, Dirty, School

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• As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found inside:Real intestines, real lungs, a beating heart and blood. A lot of hot, sticky blood.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Real, Heart, Cutting

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• Like a lot of what happens in novels, inspiration is
  a sort of spontaneous combustion--the oily rags of the head and heart.

  Stanley Elkin

  Inspiration, Heart, Spontaneous

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• Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Soul, Tears

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

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• I just kind of opened up and said, 'I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming to my house every day and putting me in new, uncomfortable, weird dresses and expensive shoes, and I just shut down and raise my arms up for them to get the dress on, and pout my lips when they need to put the lipstick on.'

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Makeup, Hair, Shoes

  "The Hunger Games: First look at Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss!". www.ew.com. May 18, 2011.

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• Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger skin, or a cowtail, could make a badge of distinction and be the beginning of a monarchy.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Race, Clothes

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1948). “Mark Twain at your fingertips”

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• I saw a man clothed with rags . . . a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back.

  John Bunyan

  Book, Men, Hands

  John Bunyan (1845). “The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to Come: Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream”, p.1

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• The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.

  Waverley Root

  Weed, Cereal, Oats

  Waverley Root (1996). “Food”, William S. Konecky Associates

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• No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper.

  Ezra Pound

  Nature, Paper, Dry

  Cantos no. 45, l. 11 (1937)

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• The balancing of the budget will not in itself place a teaspoonful of milk in a hungry baby's stomach, or remove the rags from its mother's back.

  John L. Lewis

  Mother, Baby, Economic Inequality

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• Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Women, Contentment, Cold

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.8, Wordsworth Editions

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• Through your rags I see your vanity.

  Socrates

  Vanity

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• Our souls demand Purgatory, don't they? Would it not break the heart if God said to us, It is true, my son, that your breath smells and your rags drip with mud and slime, but we are charitable here and no one will upbraid you with these things, nor draw away from you. Enter into joy? Should we not reply, With submission, sir, and if there is no objection, I'd rather be cleansed first. It may hurt, you know-even so, sir.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hurt, Heart, Son

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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• Believe me, I'm in no shape, fashion, or form a star or anything like that right now. I can walk down the street and it's fine. I never have my 'fro out on an off-day, though. Definitely keep the hoodie on, or the do-rag or whatever.

  Kevin michael

  Fashion, Stars, Believe

  Source: www.djbooth.net

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• FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London

  Ambrose Bierce

  Troops, Purpose, Flags

  Ambrose Bierce (1973). “The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce”, Ayer Company Pub

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• I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.

  Nikki Haley

  White, African American, Conservative

  "South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley Says She'd Turn Down VP Nod" by Cynthia McFadden and Amy Bingham, abcnews.go.com. April 02, 2012.

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• The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream.

  Robert Reich

  Dream, Moving, Hard Work

  "The Meaning of a Decent Society" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2013.

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• Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Creation, Ends, Merchants

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.73, North Atlantic Books

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• So please get your rags
  And your polishing jars,
  Somebody has to go polish the stars.

  Shel Silverstein

  Stars, Gulls, Jars

  Shel Silverstein, “Somebody Has To”

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