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• Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones. — Ambrose Bierce
• A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill him. Being… — Bruce Lee
• He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only… — Robert South
• Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones. — Tahir Shah
• Total surrender to the will of God actually is sacrificing oneself as a burnt offering to God. The proof of this state… — Lorenzo Scupoli
• The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones,… — Maxim Gorky
• An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes. — Joyce Cary
• He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility. — Elizabeth Gaskell
• The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
• He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how… — John Lennon
• Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him… — William Shakespeare
• He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of… — Tom Robbins

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