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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.


Camille Paglia


#against #back #define #does #every

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?


Plato


#death #last #must #swallowed #things

That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.'


Alvah Bessie


#cat #him #right #said #swallowed

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.


Jean Rostand


#during #end #i #i tried #me

How did you keep this by you?" Grey demanded abruptly. "You were searched to the skin when you were brought back." The wide mouth curved slightly in the first genuine smile Grey had seen. "I swallowed it," Fraser said. Grey's hand closed convulsively on the sapphire. He opened his hand and rather gingerly set the gleaming blue thing on the table by the chess piece. "I see," he said. "I'm sure you do, Major," said Fraser, with a gravity that merely made the glint of amusement in his eyes more pronounced. "A diet of rough parritch has its advantages, now and again.


Diana Gabaldon


#john-grey #sapphire #swallowed #diet

Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.


Barbara Amiel


#countries #destructive #dozen #empire #expanding

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.


Sai Baba


#back #becomes #built #foundations #ground

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.


Francis Bacon


#chewed #digested #few #others #some

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.


Aesop


#chewing #complacency #does #else #get

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.


Josh Billings


#cologne #flattery #like #swallowed #water






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