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wear and tear

«If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.»
«The beneficent effects of the regular quarter-hour's exercise before breakfast is more than offset by the mental wear and tear involved in getting out of bed fifteen minutes earlier than one otherwise would»
Author: Simeon Strunsky | Keywords: offset, wear and tear
«You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.»
«The hour of the waning of love has beset us,And weary and worn are our sad souls now;Let us part, ere the season of passion forget us,With a kiss and a tear on thy drooping brow.»
«Wide will wear, but Narrow will tear.»
«PRICE, n. Value, plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it.»
«She is so totally absorbed in a vocation / both a gift and a mastering passion / that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.»