Quotes with rattle

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• A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor.

  Sydney Smith
  English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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• Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

  Alexander Pope
  English poet (1688 - 1744)
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• Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.

  Campbell Brown
  American journalist (1968 - )
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• Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore.

  Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

  John F. Boyes
   
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Subjects in these quotes:

• gibraltar
• silliness
• mattered
• violence
• realize
• greatly

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