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There were taken apples, and ... closed up in wax. ... After a month's space, the apple inclosed in was was as green and fresh… — Francis Bacon
I here present thee with a hive of bees, laden some with wax, and some with honey. Fear not to approach! there are no wasps,… — Francis Quarles
It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner… — Socrates
We are a material-mad race of people. Build, increase, expand, pile up, hoard! More and more and more. "If we can just make enough money… — Eugenia Price
He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name… — Horace
The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it… — Marcus Aurelius
Pen, wax and parchment govern the world. — Benjamin Franklin
My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice Infects one comma in the course I… — William Shakespeare
I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to the land of… — Eduardo Galeano
If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal,… — Saint Francis de Sales
There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does. — Dean Martin
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. — Ezra Pound
Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table. — Marilyn vos Savant
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. — Baruch Spinoza
The fact that industries wax and wane is a reality of any economic system that wants to remain dynamic and responsive to people's changing tastes. — James Surowiecki
When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welking with his big-swoln… — William Shakespeare
Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my… — Connie Willis
If there were reason for these miseries, then into limits could I bind my woes. If the winds rages, doth not the sea wax mad,… — William Shakespeare
I believe it was Shakespeare, or possibly Howard Cosell, who first observed that marriage is very much like a birthday candle, in that 'the flames… — Dave Barry
Well, it's like that myth about the hero. He made wings out of wax so he could fly, but when he got too close to… — Hiromu Arakawa
What I don't understand is how women can pour hot wax on their bodies, let it dry, then rip out every single hair by its… — Jerry Seinfeld
My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain. — Miguel de Cervantes
Therefore was I created with a stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that when I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in… — William Shakespeare
The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in… — Harper Lee

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