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Famous quotes containing the word nail:

    “I can nail my left palm
    to the left-hand cross-piece but
    I can’t do everything myself.
    I need a hand to nail the right,
    a help, a love, a you, a wife.”
    —Alan Dugan (b. 1923)

    “The nail that sticks up will be hammered down.”
    —Japanese proverb.

    “Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)