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Letter "C" » Chinks
«The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.Stronger by weakness, wiser men become,As they draw near to their eternal home.»
«Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.»
«The mere chink of cups and saucers turns the mind to happy repose»
«Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring withtheir importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle. . . chewthe cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make thenoise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they aremany in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little,shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome _insects_ ofthe hour.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
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«The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.»
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