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1 " That makes about as much sense as lopping off your foot to avoid twisting an ankle. "
― Lori Foster , All I Want for Christmas
2 " Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown deathwish. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family. "
― Stephen King , The Shining
3 " Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index. "
― Jasper Fforde , The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next #3)
4 " The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. "
