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Letter "N" » nose
«An inch in a man's nose is much.»
«A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
grindstone, nose, nosed, nosing, on the nose, save, under his nose, under your nose
«A nose which varies from the ideal of straightness to a hook or snub may still be of good shape and agreeable to the eye.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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agreeable, good shape, hook, nose, snub, snubbed, snubs, straightness, varies
«An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons - marriage, or meat, or beer, or cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Christianity
| Keywords:
by fits and starts, cinema, fit to, meat, nose, sorts
«A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
contradiction, contradiction in terms, gentleman, nose, pug, pug nose, terms
«A person is unlucky who falls on his back and breaks his nose»
«A big nose never spoils a pretty face»
«A pig used to dirt turns its nose up at rice»
«All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
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Knowledge
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fingers, nose, nosed, nosing, on the nose, ten, under his nose, under your nose
«And liberty plucks justice by the nose.»
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