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| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. |
| Difference |
| Difference between a bent copper farthing and a nugget of gold. —Anonymous | 1 |
| Difference between a Greek temple and a bird-cage, the solemn sea and a street puddle. —Anonymous | 2 |
| The difference between having a woman at your side and on your side. —Anonymous | 3 |
| Difference between tweedle dum and tweedle dee. —Anonymous | 4 |
| The difference of savour ’twixt vinegar and wine. —Arabian Nights | 5 |
| Difference between … the ideal priest who is everlastingly by some one’s bed and the real priest who is as glad as any one else to get to his own. —Gilbert K. Chesterton | 6 |
| Difference between the race-horse and the Shetland pony, the bantam and the Shanghai fowl, the greyhound and the poodle dog. —John W. Draper | 7 |
| As much difference as between an organ and a bagpipe. —Walter Savage Landor | 8 |
| As much difference between them as between a horse chestnut and a chestnut horse. —Vincent Stuckey Lean (Collectanea) | 9 |
| As much difference as there is between beautie and vertue, bodies and shadowes, colors and life—so great odds is there between love and friendship. —John Lyly | 10 |
| Difference between a sonata of Beethoven and the Battle Cry of Freedom, between a gravestone-cutter’s cherub and the masterpieces of Raphael. —William Mathews | 11 |
| The difference between a Sunday newspaper supplement on the monkeys in the Bronx Zoo and the Darwinian Theory. —George Jean Nathan | 12 |
| The difference is as great as that between an elephant and a mosquito. —Tamil Proverb | 13 |
| Difference … between jet and ivory. —William Shakespeare | 14 |
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