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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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You tug and strain like a young horse when it's first tied up at the stake, whenever you are tied by your heartstrings.
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On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.
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The finished product is not finished when the actor is. The work is completed by a pair of shears.
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We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp
since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.
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The itch of scribbling.
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Thrilling to the sensation of hard, teeming flesh.
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strung a small white stone with a hole in it. 'This is more precious
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EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.
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What is sweeter than lettered ease?
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We wail, batten, sport, clip, clasp, sunder, dwindle, die:
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People stagger, but they pick up a tattered thread and wind it back onto a spool.
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It [angling] deserves commendations; ... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.
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Meandering leads to perfection.
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Some carry beautifully crafted swords all their lives, and never realise, until they are daubed in blood, that the pleasure comes not from owning a sword, no matter how perfect, but from letting it cut.
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I'll be contacting Webster tomorrow. My suggestion will be absofuckingmazing.
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Once there was a seamstress who could weave fabric from feeling. She sewed gowns of delight: sheer, sparkling, sleek. She cut cloth out of ambition and ardor, idyll and industry.
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Tender-handed stroke a nettle,
And it stings you, for your pains;
Grasp it like a man of mettle,
And it soft as silk remains.
Aaron Hill
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Evil tongues never want a whet.
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Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.
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What am I doing? Tearing myself. My usual occupation at most times.
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What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions.
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One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.
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I needed cutting now the way a diabetic needs insulin. It was a bulwark, steady and unyielding, I could throw up against the insidious, corrosive lapping of a whispering sea of uneasiness.
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Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.
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cosine wherry, a wooden rowboat hand
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The barberry berry sticks on the small hedge,
cold slits the same crease in the finger,
the same thorn hurts. The leaf repeats the lesson.
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Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.
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Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first!
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A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men.
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If a craftsman wants to do good work, he must first sharpen his tools.
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Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and with eye: A point that can wound, An eye to look round, And at folly or vice let it fly
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The blade sings to me. Faintly, so soft against my ears, its voice calms my worries and tells me that one touch will take it all away. It tells me that I just need to slide a long horizontal cut, and make a clean slice. It tells me the words that I have been begging to hear: this will make it ok.
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Learning
To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.
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Saracen had finished his barley and was happily chewing at the corner of a sheet that had been spread across a hedge to dry. He had once discovered a tablecloth, and ever since had been optimistic about the effects of dragging cloths off the top of things.
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Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt,
as good no scythe as no edge.
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My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.
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A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.
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Groangrousegurgling Toft's cumbersome whirligig turns slowly the room right roundabout the room.)
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She tangled her words
like matted fishing lines
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It was needlepoint, Mr. Burke. Tapestries are woven, you see, and I find it far more satisfying to stab than to weave.
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Thurst [thrust] out nature with a croche [crook], yet woll she styll runne back agayne.
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Fingering spots where they had been torn or punctured by boarhound teeth.
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Push out a bayonet. If it strikes fat, push deeper. If it strikes iron, pull back for another day.
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When training young horses "There are many types of bits for many different disciplines, but the severity of ALL bits lies in the hands holding them."
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rippling response stroking over his cock.
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striving for fabulousness.
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Smoothly and lightly the golden seed by the furrow is covered.
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If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I'll get it nipped, tucked or sucked.
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Caroline, do you value your neck?"
"Yes, I'm rather fond of it. Why?"
"Because if you don't shut up, I'm going to wring it.
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Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
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Spring, / you are a pinking shears: you cut / fresh edges on the world.
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The side whiskers indeed were quite handsome. But he stroked them so very zealously that looking at him, one might very well think that first just the side whiskers had been brought into the world, and then later the gentleman was attached to them in order to stroke them.
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the wrinkled sleeve of the head
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The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text, Cry hem; and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene!
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So I have this word for much of what I do in life: 'plorking.' I'm not playing and I'm not working, I'm plorking.
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Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line; Let me, less cruel, cast the feather'd hook, With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook, Silent along the mazy margin stray, And with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey.
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Mmmmmm
I like that thing you do with your tongue. What do you call it? Speaking? Yeah, I dig it
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First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us
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Let's escape outside," Isabelle suggested. "Do you have any other talents?"
"I bake and garden."
"Do you sew, too?"
Amber nodded. "I sew whenever anger incites me to mutilation."
Isabelle laughed. "One cannot hang for attacking a piece of cloth.
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The village of Wall watched the battle of wills with fascination, wondering what the outcome would be, for no one crossed Bridget Forester: she had a tongue that could, the villagers said, blister the paint from a barn door and tear the bark from an oak.
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It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
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Farting, don't think, just fart.
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row of stitches.
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What do you like to do?"
She scuffed a toe amongst the rushes. "Needlework."
"Very restful, isn't it?"
"Well," said Arya, "not the way I do it.
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telling. I thought I knew this
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What soilders whey-face? The English for so please you. Take thy face hence.
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Labour is blossoming or dancing where
The body is not bruised to pleasure soul.
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What are you doing?" I asked Loretta.
"Stabbing a cushion," she told me.
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To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
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Wamblecropt is the most exquisite word in the English language. Say it. Each syllable is intolerably beautiful.
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I'd rather not deal with such questions, because anyway it's like shearing a pig - lots of screams but little wool.
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All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.
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Merry kept talking, but he lost the thread. She wandered closer. With the knots banished, she gripped the tail of the rope in her fist, making an L of her arm and winding the length around her elbow in uniform loops. Rough, rasping rope against that smooth, perfect skin. And Rob on his knees.
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Slurring is the cursive of speech...
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Simply put; I'm trying to see what I can get done with the horse without him being troubled about doing it.
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cram's with praise, and make's
As fat as tame things.
One good deed dying tongueless
Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that.
Our praises are our wages; you may ride's
With one soft kiss a thousand furlongs ere
With spur we heat an acre.
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When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on
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Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.
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howling alternately
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I am spinning the silk threads of my story, weaving the fabric of my world.
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Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.
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"It's an old habit of mine, Wal'r," said the Captain, "any time these fifty year. When you see Ned Cuttle bite his nails, Wal'r, then you may know that Ned Cuttle's aground."
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He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
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dentition and witch-like pointed features.
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a chap who's supposed to stop chaps pinching things from chaps having a chap come along and pinch something from him.
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The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.
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The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.
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You bear a sword and shield, remind me
of her labor, her stoning gaze. What beast

will your blade free next? What call will you loose
from another woman's throat?
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A sound waiting to be a word.
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Carrying that lumber the forty meters from the forest had left his knuckles blistered, his underarms sopping, but now a few hours of flames had lifted what had taken him months to design, weeks to carry, days to build, all but the nails and rivets, all but the hinges and bolts, all into the sky.
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Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
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Hey," he said.
"Hi." Oh, damn. It was awkward.
"What're you doing?"
"Shearing a sheep. It's cold outside, and I need a new hat."
He paused. "You're joking, right?"
"Yes, Marshall." I gnawed on my fingers some more and sunk back in my chair.
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Soothe and sly stamina with a short sword they slice
They are beyond precise making the victim pay the price
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What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
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Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake.
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YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADE"
"And what's that?"
"A SHARP EDGE.
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His father, that austere, unfeeling and untutored man, had insisted his sons polish their boots every evening. Flett has learned to be grateful for this early discipline. It kept him breathing as a boy, provided a pulse, gave order to vast incomprehension. Later he found other ways.
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Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.
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while our mouths work