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«When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near»
«When your cat rubs the side of its face along your leg, it's affectionately marking you with its scent, identifying you as its private property, saying, in effect, 'You belong to me'»
«The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in.»
«When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.»
«There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere . . .»
«Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.»
«The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the windowpanes.»
«To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;»

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