Quotes with shears

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• It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

  Sydney Smith
  English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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• Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.

  Sydney Smith
  English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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• The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.

  Austin O'Malley
  American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• directions
• politician
• punishing
• statesman
• moving
• always

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