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Put it down

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I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down. Tim Vine

Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from. Honoré de Balzac

He picked up the skull and knocked an onion ring out of its eye socket. "I see Sophie has been busy again. Couldn't you have restrained her, my friend?" The skull yattered its teeth at him. Howl put it down rather hastily. Diana Wynne Jones

This business of seeing divine interconnected beauty in people has been happening more and more lately, and I put it down to meditating too much. Russell Brand

The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing. Milton Avery

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since. Slash

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