“Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt;
It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.”

— Oliver Goldsmith

The Haunch of Venison (1776).

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Oliver Goldsmith 134

Irish physician and writer 1728–1774

Thomas Brown (1662–1704) English translator and writer of satire

Laconics, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt", Sorbienne (1610–1670); also used in Oliver Goldsmith, The Haunch of Venison.
Source: Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704. Laconics, Or, New Maxims of State And Conversation: Relating to the Affairs And Manners of the Present Times : In Three Parts. London: Printed for Thomas Hodgson ..., 1701. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015013771368?urlappend=%3Bseq=117

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Source: The Secret Life of Bees

“Met them. Killed them. Got the T-shirt.”

Rick Riordan book The Serpent's Shadow

Source: The Serpent's Shadow

“There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him, so I buried them, and let them hurt me.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Variant: There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him, so I buried them, and let them hurt me. (p. 181)
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 181