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To be engaged in opposing wrong affords but a slender guarantee for being right. — William E. Gladstone

My hands were ... my strange white, slender, glittering hands. — Anne Rice

All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings. — Edmund Waller

I was young once and slender and pretty and I made the most of it. It's somebody else's turn now. — Abigail Thomas

Upon such slender threads as these do the fates of mortals hang — Voltaire

The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender — Anne Boleyn

Amo, amas, I love a lass, As cedar tall and slender; Sweet cowslip's grace Is her nominative case, And she's o' the feminine gender. — Diana Gabaldon

The day guy was an aquiline black man about seven feet tall, but slender as a pencil, folded into a desk chair that was far too small for him. — Lee Child

Life hangs from so slender a thread. Life is but a sigh ... — Marjane Satrapi

The strands that connect us are frail, so don't hang great weights on slender wires ... — John Geddes

The only thing that helps me keep my slender grip on reality is the friendship I have with my collection of singing potatoes. — Holly

The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses. — William Manchester

Colonel Maycomb's misplaced self-confidence and slender sense of direction brought disaster to all who rode with him in the Creek Indian Wars. — Harper Lee

Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood. — Leonardo Da Vinci

My slender waist and thighs are exhausted and weak from a night of cloud dancing ... — Huang E

Happiness leaves such slender records; it is the dark days that are so voluminously documented. — Truman Capote

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends. — George Washington

Let guilty men remember, their black deeds
Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds. — John Webster

Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence. — John Henry Newman

Flora inherited, however, from her father a strong will and from her mother a slender ankle. — Stella Gibbons

All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins. — Ovid

The child was slender as a fleeting hope. — William Peter Blatty

The child was slender as fleeting hope. — William Peter Blatty

The Chanel woman is slender, sophisticated and chic. — Gaspard Ulliel

around her slender waist. — Chip Hughes

All the memories in the world, good or bad, are not worth one slender hope for the future; and — Mark Twain

Childish and slender creature! It seemed as if a linnet had hopped to my foot and proposed to bear me on its tiny wing. — Charlotte Bronte

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. — Mark Twain

The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid,Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made. — Francis Quarles

Ravishment of this slender body in all ways possible before draining it of the life substance? Aren't you a pleasure hoarder, my dear? — Ciaran O. Dwynvil

Our books still do not require batteries. But I am no fool. It is a slender advantage. — Robin Sloan

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang. — Alexandre Dumas

One ventures, commits one's self, and if readers are not pleased, one can perhaps please one's self and earn that slender right to persevere. — Marianne Moore

And to kill time while awaiting death, I smoke slender cigarettes thumbing my nose to the gods. — Jules Laforgue

And they hooked their fingers around its slender spurs, and pulled. — Laini Taylor

And her slender white neck was bowed over her book, the fair hair falling on either side of it — L.J.Smith

However far back you go you will find all experiences linked by slender threads. — Robert Hellenga

The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us. — Martin Luther

The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful. — Pablo Casals

The truth is always of use, madonna," he answered, eyes fixed on the slender stream. "It has the value of rarity, you know. — Diana Gabaldon

For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin. — Cameron Russell

The trees part before her slender form and close in again behind me. The roads weave a vast labyrinth, and I am lost. — Shan Sa

Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death-bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all on. — Laurence Sterne

She was average height, more slender than curvy. And he realized with horror that he was attracted to her. A lot. — Miranda Liasson

Two roses on one slender spray In sweet communion grew, Together hailed the morning ray And drank the evening dew. — James Montgomery

I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you. — Ezra Pound

On the equator, where centrifugal forces are greatest, a 150-pound person will be a slender 149 pounds 14 ounces. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

He felt like a helium balloon straining skyward on a slender string. — Jonathan Franzen

Her slender shoulders slumped making Marcus want to go to her and vow he'd never hurt her the way he could as a Drakkon. — Paula Quinn

features became Halia's, longer, more slender, the cartilage of her nose concave as bone. But Halia's skin was far too pale; she — Mike Bond

They were all slender, frail creatures with wondering Wes and soft fluttery voices. But they were all made out of thin invisible steel. — Betty Smith

How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man. — Charles Brockden Brown

Her slender hand on the small of his back, night after night - this had saved his life. — Jason Heller

This was my slender bridge to the future, and I stepped onto it as carefully as I could. — Alexander Chee

White bee, even when you are gone you buzz in my soul
You live again in time, slender and silent. — Pablo Neruda

But you didn't die."
"Clever lad, to deduce that from such slender evidence after living with me for just three years. — Scott Lynch

Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street. — William Hazlitt

To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds. — Gore Vidal

Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. — Thomas Jefferson

Cecilia did not know why her three slender daughters loved watching overweight people sweat and cry and starve. — Liane Moriarty

The fate of the entire human race was now tied to these slender fingers. Without hesitation, Ye pressed the button. — Liu Cixin

All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash. — Ovid

Its single mast reached high towards the stars and its slender form creaked with every lapping wave. — Jack Croxall

Incredible what slender threads you begin to hang your hopes on. — Elizabeth Wein

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay. — Samuel Johnson

The mystery is this: there is one right thing and only one right thing to do at every moment. We can either follow or resist the slender threads. — Robert A. Johnson

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

Still she did not blench: maiden of the Rohirrim, child of kings, slender but as a steel-blade, fair yet terrible. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I chose fat and functional over slender and miserable. — Andrew Solomon

I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar! — Russell Brand