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Letter "S" » secondhand
«He chopped up peppers, mixed them with vinegar and Avery Island salt, put the mixture in wooden barrels to age and funneled the resulting sauce into secondhand cologne bottles.»
«The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution that would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curse of the world. Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
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«People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.»
Author: Warren G. Bennis
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«Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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prices, secondhand, widows
«Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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«Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
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conservatism, conserve, conserved, conserves, conserving, secondhand
«True friendship is self-love at secondhand»
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