"Nine times out of ten it is the……" — Gilbert K. Chesterton

More Coarse Quotes

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• Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular… — Charles Babbage
• The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
• If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days… — Lord Chesterfield
• The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is… — Peter Høeg
• Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin;… — Willa Cather
• With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still… — Confucius
• There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine. — Michel de Montaigne
• Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of… — Thomas de Quincey
• The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does not display… — Laozi
• What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why… — Hester Lynch Piozzi
• The sand should be neither coarse nor fine but of a middling quality or about the size of the common… — Canvass White
• Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and… — Plutarch

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