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• I'm really interested in fashion but at the same time I find it quite competitive. Second-hand stuff leaves you more open to… — Sophie Ellis Bextor
• Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. — Samuel Butler
• In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination — Mark Twain
• If you ever need a helping hand, it is at the end of your arm. As you get older you must remember… — Audrey Hepburn
• I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man. — John le Carre
• The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of… — Michael Polanyi
• Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless… — Muriel Barbery
• Newspapers are the second hand of history. — Arthur Schopenhauer
• Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of… — Amos Bronson Alcott
• They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We… — William Hazlitt
• He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested… — Henry David Thoreau

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