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«There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it»
«There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.»
Author: Coleman Young | Keywords: straw, stroke, transform
«Italian wine was something rough and red that came in a straw-covered flask with a candle stuck in its neck, [the empty bottle] was an unmistakable badge of sophomore sophistication.»
«The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn,/ The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, / The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, / No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.»
«She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: lodge in, provender, straw
«So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: straw, stubble
«Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary?»
«Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.»
«It was the piece of straw that broke the camel's back»
Author: Proverb | Keywords: camel, straw
«Life and death come to all who are born. Everything here gets devoured by Death. He sits and examines the accounts, there where no one goes along with anyone. Those who weep and wail might just as well all tie bundles of straw.»

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