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“Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.”
Chamfort quotes (French playwright, 1741-1794)
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“God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb”
Laurence Sterne quotes (Irish born English Writer, 1713-1768)

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“And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow.”
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“To a close-shorn sheep God gives wind by measure”
George Herbert quotes (English metaphysical Poet and Clergyman, 1593-1633)

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“Taxation: how the sheep are shorn”
Edward Abbey quotes (American Writer whose works, set primarily in the southwestern United States, reflect an uncompromising environmentalist philosophy. 1927-1989)
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“For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.”
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“Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.”
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“Many go out for wool and come home shorn”
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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 anyone who comes in between them.”
Sydney Smith quotes (English Clergyman, Essayist and Wit, 1771-1845)
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“It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not flay them”


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“Great Hercules and Samson too Were stronger Men than I or You Yet they were baffled by their dears And felt the distaff and the shears”
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“Great cry and little wool, as the Devil said when he sheared the hogs”
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“In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep”
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“In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.”
Austin O'Malley quotes (United Irish leader, 1760-1854)

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“The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.”
Austin O'Malley quotes (United Irish leader, 1760-1854)
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“If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.”
Henry David Thoreau quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)
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“There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal the vast towers, but those towers, hostile to mystery and blind to any sort of play, shear off the rain's tresses and shine their three thousand swords through the soft swan of the fog.”
santiz Federico Garcia Lorca quotes (Spanish Poet and Playwright who, in a career that spanned just 19 years, resurrected and revitalized the most basic strains of Spanish poetry and theatre. 1898-1936)
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“The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.”
Phoenix_Girl Dean Koontz quotes (American author)
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shorn synonyms: sheared.

shorn antonyms: unshorn.

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