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oxen two foxes
One ox, two oxen. One fox, two foxen. Jenny Lawson
oxen commodity standards
Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange, because in barter each commodity is still its own medium of exchange. But it cannot be its own or its own standard of comparison. Karl Marx
oxen hair pairs
One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen. James Howell
oxen sea giving
Hither rolls the storm of heat; I feel its finer billows beat Like a sea which me infolds; Heat with viewless fingers moulds, Swells, and mellows, and matures, Paints, and flavors, and allures, Bird and brier inly warms, Still enriches and transforms, Gives the reed and lily length, Adds to oak and oxen strength, Transforming what it doth infold, Life out of death, new out of old. Ralph Waldo Emerson
oxen fats should
Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat. Samuel Johnson
two religion plunder
There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own. Charles Caleb Colton
two debt possession
There are two things that bestow consequence; great possession, or great debts.
two firsts quarrels
Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.
two iron gold
There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp--gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them both may indeed attain the highest station.
two together mistress
If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,--a main plot and an under-plot; and he that understands only one of them will, in all probability, be the dupe of both. A mistress may rule a monarch, but some obscure favorite may rule the mistress.
two may acquaintance
Make the most of the day, by determining to spend it on two sorts of acquaintances only--those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something may be learned.
two people way
There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
two literature may
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
two small-changes society
That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society. Charles Dickens
foxes conservative
MSNBC will never be as liberal as Fox is conservative. David Shuster
foxes stags mentality
The Stag at Bay with the mentality of a fox at large. Bernard Levin
foxes subtlety
A fox is subtlety itself. Aristophanes
foxes runaway found
I had found The Runaways and I had seen Foxes, and I decided I was just gonna become a juvie, like Cherie Currie. Courtney Love
foxes way shows
I really like the way Fox handles their shows. D. B. Sweeney
foxes republican discovering
Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox David Frum
foxes littles my-favorite
One of my favorite movies is The Little Foxes. Donna Mills
foxes weak tact
Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact. Ambrose Bierce
foxes littered stunk
Owls would have hooted in St Peter's choir,/ And foxes stunk and littered in St Paul's. Thomas Gray