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«Berlin. What a garrison of spies! what a cabinet full of useless, liquid secrets, what a playground for every alchemist, miracle worker and rat piper that ever took up the cloak.»
Author: John LeCarre
(Writer)
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«Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future. You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity, and the sour sound of whining will certainly frighten away any opportunity for success. Never again. There is a better way.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
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«Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
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«God bless the inventor of sleep, the cloak that covers all men's thoughts, the food that cures all hunger . . . the balancing weight that levels the shepherd with the king and the simple with the wise.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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«And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also.»
«And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also.»
«Fear and dull disposition, luke warmness and sloth, are not seldom wont to cloak themselves under the affected name of Moderation.»
«Eloquence under a threadbare cloak.»
«Folly is the cloak of knavery.»
«Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm.»
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