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«Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.»
Author: E. Joseph Cossman
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extra, hundreds, throw in, throw in the towel, towel, towels, watched, yard
«Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.»
«If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard»
«If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women you've got in the house.»
«Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.»
Author: Truman Capote
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
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Books
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finishing, out in, shot, took, yard
«[at prof. Frink's yard sale]Three dollars and it only transports matter?!»
«Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard»
«He who is unable to dance says that the yard is stony»
«Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast of current events. The ground is a giant dog newspaper, containing all kinds of late-breaking news items, which, if they are especially urgent, are often continued in the next yard.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
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«As much use as a yard of pump water»
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