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«The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
| Keywords:
first man, oyster, oysters, shell, shells
«There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster»
Author: H. H. Munro
(Novelist, Writer)
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Buddhism,
Christianity
| Keywords:
matches, oyster, sympathetic
«Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men charging off in pursuit of fortune or fame or an imagined Utopia. That is why we number so few geniuses among us. The wholesome oyster wears no pearl, the healthy whale no ambergris, and as long as we can keep on adding to the race, we harbor a sort of health within ourselves.»
«The world is an oyster, but you don't crack it open on a mattress.»
«What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!»
«There take, says Justice, take ye each a shell; We thrive at Westminster on fools like you; 'Twas a fat oyster - live in peace - adieu»
«We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell»
«Why then the worlds mine oyster, Which I with sword shall open.»
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