Famous quotes containing the words thin, double and/or layer:
“I would find by the edge of that water
The collar-bone of a hare
Worn thin by the lapping of water,
And pierce it through with a gimlet and stare
At the old bitter world where they marry in churches....”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“since I see
Your double heart,
Farewell my part!”
—Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?1542)
“After a few months acquaintance with European coffee, ones mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with its clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
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