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«Give even an onion graciously»
«Emperor? You old fake! / You're no Emperor. You're just an onion. / Now then, little Peer, I'm going to peel you.»
«He fasted for a whole year and then broke his fast with an onion»
Author: Arabian Proverb | Keywords: fasted, onion
«Life is an onion and one peels it crying»
«At his wife's 60th birthday party in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Dick Cheney had a huge steak and battered onion rings for dinner. Afterwards he met with 100 donors, not campaign donors, heart donors.»
«I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man?s table, where one is fain to sit mincing and chewing his meat an hour together, drink little, be always wiping his fingers and his chops, and never dare to cough nor sneeze, though he has never so much a mind to it, nor do a many things which a body may do freely by one?s self.»
«A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats»
«Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl, And, scarce-suspected, animate the whole.»
Author: Sydney Smith (Clergyman, Essayist, Wit) | Keywords: bowl, lurk, onion, scarce
«An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.»
Author: Will Rogers | Keywords: cry, onion, Onions, The Onion, vegetable
«Indeed the tears live in an onion that should water this sorrow.»

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