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Boston State-House is the hub of the solar system.You couldn't pry that out of a Boston man, if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crowbar.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Tall windows show Infinity; And, hard reality, The candles weep and pry and dance Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms are vast as Sleep within; When once I ventured in, Chill Silence, like a surging sea, Slowly enveloped me.

edith sitwell

— "Clowns' Houses"

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Boston State-house is the hub of the solar system. You couldn't pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crow-bar.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), VI.

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The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult to the gods to climb and pry into their secrets, and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there. Simple races, as savages, do not climb mountains - their tops are sacred and mysterious tracts never visited by them.


— Henry David Thoreau, "Ktaadn" (1848), in The Maine Woods (2004) p. 65.

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"The next person's phone I hear set to Vivaldi is going to need a hydraulic pump to pry their phone out of their ass."


— Ever wonder what your cell phone would sound like coming out of your ass?

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Inigo Montoya: I do not mean to pry, but you don't by any chance happen to have six fingers on your right hand?
Man in Black: Do you always begin conversations this way?


— Played by Mandy Patinkin and Cary Elwes in The Princess Bride (1987).

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