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More Breeches Quotes

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• There's no taking trout with dry breeches. — Miguel de Cervantes
• Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your… — George Canning
• One of the grandest figures that ever frequented Eastern Yorkshire was William Smith, the distinguished Father of English Geology. My… — William Crawford Williamson
• All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have… — Laurence Sterne
• I was intent on doing something productive and on being everything my parents taught me to be. Their values were… — Ruth Simmons
• To get a man soundly saved it is not enough to put on him a pair of new breeches, to… — William Booth
• Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from, as pickpockets are observed commonly to walk with their hands in their… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept… — Charles Dickens
• Oh, painted smirk of a hopeless dawn, the girl is still wearing her breeches... — Frances Hardinge
• Aye, well, he'll be wed a long time," he said callously. "Do him no harm to keep his breeches on… — Diana Gabaldon
• Anthony: Now lower your dress a little- Roslynn: Anthony! Anthony: This is no time for offended modesty... You're the distraction.… — Johanna Lindsey
• Papa's in a bad way, Locke. I wanted to see you before you saw him - he has some...things he… — Scott Lynch

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