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He (President Abraham Lincoln) has a face like a hoosier Michael Angelo, so awful ugly it becomes beautiful, with its strange mouth, its deep-cut, criss-cross lines, and its doughnut complexion


Walt Whitman

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of all the sun your deep mouth and its delight,
of s...
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JEAN BAUDRILLARD Congress has a deep, vested interest in its own inefficiency.
ROBERT A. CARO This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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SAM WATERSTON The morning hour has gold in its mouth.
PROVERB The morning hour has gold in its mouth.
GERMAN PROVERB 'Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.
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JOSEPH CONRAD My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sou...
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SHERRILYN KENYON I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful.
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ISAAC DISRAELI discourage its use.
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ELLA FITZGERALD FEMA has lost its way.
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ITALO CALVINO Its strange to love a place like you would a person, but I do!
MARIAH MARSDEN A beautiful woman without good character is like a pig with a gold ring in its nose.
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