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«A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.»
«A thick skin is a gift from God»
Author: Konrad Adenauer (Chancellor, Statesman) | About: Gifts | Keywords: thick, thick skin
«A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.»
«And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: baths, contained, thick, Two thousand
«At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: brightness, hail, thick
«A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: axes, axis, lifted, The Axis, thick
«And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick cloth, and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: cloth, dipped, Hazael, pass on, reigned, stead, thick
«A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly sweet, neither lumpy nor frothing on the Java: such a cup of coffee is a match for twenty blue devils and will exorcise them all.»
«A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.»
«A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.»

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