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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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