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-(1) Everything depends.
-(2) Nothing is always.
-(3) Everything is sometimes.
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-A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that balances are
-correct.
-		-- Princess Irulan, "Manual of Maud'Dib"
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-A bird in the bush usually has a friend in there with him.
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-A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
-		-- Cervantes
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-A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.
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-A bird in the hand makes it awfully hard to blow your nose.
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-	A boy spent years collecting postage stamps.  The girl next door bought
-an album too, and started her own collection.  "Dad, she buys everything I've
-bought, and it's taken all the fun out of it for me.  I'm quitting."  Don't,
-son, remember, 'Imitation is the sincerest form of philately.'"
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-A certain amount of opposition is a help, not a hindrance. Kites rise
-against the wind, not with it.
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-A chicken is an egg's way of producing more eggs.
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-A chronic disposition to inquiry deprives domestic felines of vital qualities.
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-A clever prophet makes sure of the event first.
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-A closed mouth gathers no foot.
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-A couch is as good as a chair.
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-A day without orange juice is like a day without orange juice.
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-A day without sunshine is like a day without Anita Bryant.
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-A day without sunshine is like a day without orange juice.
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-A day without sunshine is like night.
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-A dead man cannot bite.
-		-- Gnaeus Pompeius (Pompey)
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-A farmer is a man outstanding in his field.
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-	A farmer with extremely prolific hens posted the following sign.  "Free
-Chickens.  Our Coop Runneth Over."
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-	A father gave his teen-age daughter an untrained pedigreed pup for
-her birthday.  An hour later, when wandered through the house, he found her
-looking at a puddle in the center of the kitchen.  "My pup," she murmured
-sadly, "runneth over."
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-A fool and his money are soon popular.
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-A fool and your money are soon partners.
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-A fool must now and then be right by chance.
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-A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
-		-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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-A friend in need is a pest indeed.
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-A full belly makes a dull brain.
-		-- Ben Franklin
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-		[and the local candy machine man.  Ed]
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-	A girl spent a couple hours on the phone talking to her two best
-friends, Maureen Jones, and Maureen Brown.  When asked by her father why she
-had been on the phone so long, she responded "I heard a funny story today
-and I've been telling it to the Maureens."
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-A gleekzorp without a tornpee is like a quop without a fertsneet (sort of).
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-A good memory does not equal pale ink.
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-A good name lost is seldom regained.  When character is gone,
-all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.
-		-- J. Hawes
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-A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.
-		-- Patton
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-A good reputation is more valuable than money.
-		-- Publilius Syrus
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-A good scapegoat is hard to find.
-A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
-		-- Carolyn Wells
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-A handful of friends is worth more than a wagon of gold.
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-A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
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-A hermit is a deserter from the army of humanity.
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-A homeowner's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a weekend for?
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-	A horse breeder has his young colts bottle-fed after they're three
-days old.  He heard that a foal and his mummy are soon parted.
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-A hundred thousand lemmings can't be wrong!
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-A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.
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-A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
-		-- Lao Tsu
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-A journey of a thousand miles starts under one's feet.
-		-- Lao Tsu
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-A king's castle is his home.
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-A lie in time saves nine.
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-A lie is an abomination unto the Lord and a very present help in time of
-trouble.
-		-- Adlai Stevenson
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-A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
-		-- Aristotle
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-A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.
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-A little inaccuracy saves a world of explanation.
-		-- C.E. Ayres
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-A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
-		-- H.H. Munro, "Saki"
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-A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never.
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-A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles
-in the road.
-		-- Alexander Smith
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-A man who carries a cat by its tail learns something he can learn
-in no other way.
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-A man with one watch knows what time it is.
-A man with two watches is never quite sure.
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-A man's best friend is his dogma.
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-A man's house is his castle.
-		-- Sir Edward Coke
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-A man's house is his hassle.
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-A mind is a wonderful thing to waste.
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-A mushroom cloud has no silver lining.
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-A penny saved has not been spent.
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-A penny saved is ridiculous.
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-A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his
-mouth.
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-A place for everything and everything in its place.
-		-- Isabella Mary Beeton, "The Book of Household Management"
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-	[Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when
-	 referring to memory management system services.]
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-A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
-		-- Stanley Baldwin
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-A plethora of individuals with expertise in culinary techniques contaminate
-the potable concoction produced by steeping certain edible nutriments.
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-A plucked goose doesn't lay golden eggs.
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-A pound of salt will not sweeten a single cup of tea.
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-"A radioactive cat has eighteen half-lives."
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-A rolling stone gathers momentum.
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-A rolling stone gathers no moss.
-		-- Publilius Syrus
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-A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.
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-A sinking ship gathers no moss.
-		-- Donald Kaul
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-A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.
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-A snake lurks in the grass.
-		-- Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil)
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-A soft answer turneth away wrath; but grievous words stir up anger.
-		-- Proverbs 15:1
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-A soft drink turneth away company.
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-A song in time is worth a dime.
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-A stitch in time saves nine.
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-A violent man will die a violent death.
-		-- Lao Tsu
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-A watched clock never boils.
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-A wise man can see more from a mountain top than a fool can from the bottom
-of a well.
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-A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a
-mountain top.
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-A wise person makes his own decisions, a weak one obeys public opinion.
-		-- Chinese proverb
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-A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets
-people's attention.
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-A witty saying proves nothing.
-		-- Voltaire
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-A word to the wise is enough.
-		-- Miguel de Cervantes
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-Above all else -- sky.
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-Above all things, reverence yourself.
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-Absence makes the heart forget.
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-Absence makes the heart go wander.
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-Absence makes the heart grow fonder -- of somebody else.
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-Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
-		-- Sextus Aurelius
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-Absence makes the heart grow frantic.
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-Absolutum obsoletum.  (If it works, it's out of date.)
-		-- Stafford Beer
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-Ad astra per aspera.
-	[To the stars by aspiration.]
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-Adde parvum parvo manus acervus erit.
-	[Add little to little and there will be a big pile.]
-		-- Ovid
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-Advice from an old carpenter: measure twice, saw once.
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-After the game the king and the pawn go in the same box.
-		-- Italian proverb
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-Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill.
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-Age before beauty; and pearls before swine.
-		-- Dorothy Parker
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-Aim for the moon.  If you miss, you may hit a star.
-		-- W. Clement Stone
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-Ain't no right way to do a wrong thing.
-		-- The Mad Dogtender
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-Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
-		-- Oscar Wilde [as he sipped champagne on his deathbed]
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-Alimony is the high cost of leaving.
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-All a man needs out of life is a place to sit 'n' spit in the fire.
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-All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.
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--- All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.
--- When there are visible vapors having the prevenience in ignited
-	carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration.
--- Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.
--- A plethora of individuals wither expertise in culinary techniques vitiated
-	the potable concoction produced by steeping certain coupestibles.
--- Eleemosynary deeds have their initial incidence intramurally.
--- Male cadavers are incapable of yielding testimony.
--- Individuals who make their abode in vitreous edifices would be well
-	advised to refrain from catapulting projectiles.
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-All I kin say is when you finds yo'self wanderin' in a peach orchard,
-ya don't go lookin' for rutabagas.
-		-- Kingfish
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-All is fear in love and war.
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-All is well that ends well.
-		-- John Heywood
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-All that glitters has a high refractive index.
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-All that glitters is not gold; all that wander are not lost.
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-All things are possible, except for skiing through a revolving door.
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-All things being equal, you are bound to lose.
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-All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.
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-All's well that ends.
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-An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or
-one-and-a-half truths.
-		-- Karl Kraus
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-An apple a day makes 365 apples a year.
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-An apple every eight hours will keep three doctors away.
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-An idle mind is worth two in the bush.
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-An ounce of clear truth is worth a pound of obfuscation.
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-An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
-		-- Michael Korda
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-An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.
-		-- Spanish proverb
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-"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of purge."
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-And tomorrow will be like today, only more so.
-		-- Isaiah 56:12, New Standard Version
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-Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
-		-- Proverbs, 26:5
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-Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche --
-a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea.  For instance, my
-grandmother used to say, "The black cat is always the last one off the fence."
-I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true.
-		-- Solomon Short
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-Any philosophy that can be put "in a nutshell" belongs there.
-		-- Sydney J. Harris
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-Any road followed to its end leads precisely nowhere.
-Climb the mountain just a little to test it's a mountain.
-From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
-		-- Bene Gesserit proverb, "Dune"
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-Anything is possible on paper.
-		-- Ron McAfee
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-Anything is possible, unless it's not.
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-Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently.  Things hitherto
-undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
-		-- Max Beerbohm, "Mainly on the Air"
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-Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
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-As well look for a needle in a bottle of hay.
-		-- Miguel de Cervantes
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-Ask not for whom the Bell tolls, and you will pay only the station-to-station
-rate.
-		-- Howard Kandel
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-Ask not for whom the telephone bell tolls...
-if thou art in the bathtub, it tolls for thee.
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-Avoid cliches like the plague.  They're a dime a dozen.
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-Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.
-		-- Homer
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-Be sure to evaluate the bird-hand/bush ratio.
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-Beggars should be no choosers.
-		-- John Heywood
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-Better dead than mellow.
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-Better hope you get what you want before you stop wanting it.
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-Better late than never.
-		-- Titus Livius (Livy)
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-Better living a beggar than buried an emperor.
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-Better to be nouveau than never to have been riche at all.
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-Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
-		-- motto of the Christopher Society
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-Better tried by twelve than carried by six.
-		-- Jeff Cooper
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-Beware of friends who are false and deceitful.
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-Beware of geeks bearing graft.
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-Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-		-- Indian proverb
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-Charity begins at home.
-		-- Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
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-Cheap things are of no value, valuable things are not cheap.
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-Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
-		-- P.J. O'Rourke
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-Cleanliness is next to impossible.
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-Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum --
-"I think that I think, therefore I think that I am."
-		-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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-"Cogito ergo I'm right and you're wrong."
-		-- Blair Houghton
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-Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought her back.
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-Desist from enumerating your fowl prior to their emergence from the shell.
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-Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
-		-- Aesop
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-Do unto others before they undo you.
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-Do, or do not; there is no try.
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-Doing gets it done.
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-Don't get even -- get odd!
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-Don't get mad, get even.
-		-- Joseph P. Kennedy
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-Don't get even, get jewelry.
-		-- Anonymous
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-Don't get mad, get interest.
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-Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today,
-you can do it again tomorrow.
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-Eschew obfuscation.
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-Every path has its puddle.
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-Every silver lining has a cloud around it.
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-Every solution breeds new problems.
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-Expedience is the best teacher.
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-Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
-		-- Minna Antrim, "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions"
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-Familiarity breeds attempt.
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-Flattery will get you everywhere.
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-Flee at once, all is discovered.
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-For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
-		-- Alexander Pope
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-Forgive and forget.
-		-- Cervantes
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-Fortune and love befriend the bold.
-		-- Ovid
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-Fortune favors the lucky.
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-Fortune finishes the great quotations, #12
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-	Those who can, do.  Those who can't, write the instructions.
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-Fortune finishes the great quotations, #3
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-	Birds of a feather flock to a newly washed car.
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-Fortune finishes the great quotations, #9
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-	A word to the wise is often enough to start an argument.
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-Freedom from incrustation of grime is contiguous to rectitude.
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-Genius is pain.
-		-- John Lennon
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-Given sufficient time, what you put off doing today will get done by itself.
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-God gave man two ears and one tongue so that we listen twice as much as
-we speak.
-		-- Arab proverb
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-Happiness adds and multiplies as we divide it with others.
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-Happiness is the greatest good.
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-Haste makes waste.
-		-- John Heywood
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-Have a nice day!
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-Have a nice diurnal anomaly.
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-Have an adequate day.
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-He that bringeth a present, findeth the door open.
-		-- Scottish proverb.
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-He who fears the unknown may one day flee from his own backside.
-		-- Sinbad
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-He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day.
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-He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.
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-He who has a shady past knows that nice guys finish last.
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-He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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-He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world
-as he who is ready to die.
-		-- Giacomo Leopardi
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-He who hates vices hates mankind.
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-He who hesitates is last.
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-He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
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-He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.
-		-- Bertolt Brecht
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-He who laughs last -- missed the punch line.
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-He who laughs last didn't get the joke.
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-He who laughs last hasn't been told the terrible truth.
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-He who laughs last is probably your boss.
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-He who laughs last usually had to have joke explained.
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-He who laughs, lasts.
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-He who lives without folly is less wise than he believes.
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-He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
-		-- Dr. Johnson
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-Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
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-Honesty's the best policy.
-		-- Miguel de Cervantes
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-Honi soit qui mal y pense.
-	[Evil to him who evil thinks.]
-		-- Motto of the Order of the Garter (est. Edward III)
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-How sharper than a hound's tooth it is to have a thankless serpent.
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-How you look depends on where you go.
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-I am a man: nothing human is alien to me.
-		-- Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
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-I doubt, therefore I might be.
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-I know on which side my bread is buttered.
-		-- John Heywood
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-I think, therefore I am... I think.
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-I'll turn over a new leaf.
-		-- Miguel de Cervantes
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-If a fool persists in his folly he shall become wise.
-		-- William Blake
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-If anything can go wrong, it will.
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-If at first you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.
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-If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
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-If at first you don't succeed, quit; don't be a nut about success.
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-If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.
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-If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
-		-- W.E. Hickson
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-If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average.
-		-- Leonard Levinson
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-If happiness is in your destiny, you need not be in a hurry.
-		-- Chinese proverb
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-If I cannot bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.
-		-- Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil)
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-If in doubt, mumble.
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-If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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-If it heals good, say it.
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-If the shoe fits, it's ugly.
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-If the thunder don't get you, then the lightning will.
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-If there is no wind, row.
-		-- Polish proverb
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-If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
-		-- Laurence J. Peter
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-If wishes were horses, then beggars would be thieves.
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-If you wish to be happy for one hour, get drunk.
-If you wish to be happy for three days, get married.
-If you wish to be happy for a month, kill your pig and eat it.
-If you wish to be happy forever, learn to fish.
-		-- Chinese Proverb
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-If you wish to succeed, consult three old people.
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-If you would keep a secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.
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-In charity there is no excess.
-		-- Francis Bacon
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-In God we trust; all else we walk through.
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-In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
-		-- Benjamin Franklin
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-Inspiration without perspiration is usually sterile.
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-Integrity has no need for rules.
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-It doesn't matter whether you win or lose -- until you lose.
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-It is a poor judge who cannot award a prize.
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-It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
-		-- Aeschylus
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-It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
-		-- Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid)
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-It is bad luck to be superstitious.
-		-- Andrew W. Mathis
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-It is better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
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-It is better to have loved and lost -- much better.
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-It is better to have loved and lost than just to have lost.
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-It is better to wear out than to rust out.
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-It is common sense to take a method and try it.  If it fails,
-admit it frankly and try another.  But above all, try something.
-		-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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-It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.
-		-- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
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-It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters.
-		-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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-It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
-		-- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
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-It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-		-- Roger Babson
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-It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.
-		-- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
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-It's always darkest just before it gets pitch black.
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-It's always darkest just before the lights go out.
-		-- Alex Clark
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-It's better to burn out than it is to rust.
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-It's better to burn out than to fade away.
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-It's later than you think.
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-It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.
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-It's the thought, if any, that counts!
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-Keep on keepin' on.
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-Keep the phase, baby.
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-Kites rise highest against the wind -- not with it.
-		-- Winston Churchill
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-Knowledge is power.
-		-- Francis Bacon
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-Knowledge without common sense is folly.
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-Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
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-Laugh and the world thinks you're an idiot.
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-Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
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-Laugh when you can; cry when you must.
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-Laugh, and the world ignores you.  Crying doesn't help either.
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-Leave no stone unturned.
-		-- Euripides
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-Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
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-Let sleeping dogs lie.
-		-- Charles Dickens
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-Let your conscience be your guide.
-		-- Pope
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-Life is one long struggle in the dark.
-		-- Titus Lucretius Carus
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-"Life is too important to take seriously."
-		-- Corky Siegel
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-Life is too short to be taken seriously.
-		-- Oscar Wilde
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-Look before you leap.
-		-- Samuel Butler
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-Look ere ye leap.
-		-- John Heywood
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--- Male cadavers are incapable of yielding testimony.
--- Individuals who make their abode in vitreous edifices would be well advised
-	to refrain from catapulting projectiles.
--- Neophyte's serendipity.
--- Exclusive dedication to necessitious chores without interludes of hedonistic
-	diversion renders John a hebetudinous fellow.
--- A revolving concretion of earthy or mineral matter accumulates no congeries
-	of small, green bryophytic plant.
--- Abstention from any aleatory undertaking precludes a potential escallation
-	of a lucrative nature.
--- Missiles of ligneous or osteal consistency have the potential of fracturing
-	osseous structure, but appellations will eternally remain innocuous.
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-Man is the measure of all things.
-		-- Protagoras
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-Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
-		-- Plotinus
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-Many are called, few are chosen.  Fewer still get to do the choosing.
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-Many are called, few volunteer.
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-Many are cold, but few are frozen.
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-Many hands make light work.
-		-- John Heywood
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-May you have warm words on a cold evening,
-a full mooon on a dark night,
-and a smooth road all the way to your door.
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-May you live in uninteresting times.
-		-- Chinese proverb
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-Men freely believe that what they wish to desire.
-		-- Julius Caesar
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-Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.
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-Misery no longer loves company.  Nowadays it insists on it.
-		-- Russell Baker
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-Misfortunes arrive on wings and leave on foot.
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-Mistakes are often the stepping stones to utter failure.
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-Mistrust first impulses; they are always right.
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-Moderation in all things.
-		-- Publius Terentius Afer [Terence]
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-Moderation is a fatal thing.  Nothing succeeds like excess.
-		-- Oscar Wilde
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-Mother is the invention of necessity.
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-Mum's the word.
-		-- Miguel de Cervantes
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-Necessity has no law.
-		-- St. Augustine
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-Necessity hath no law.
-		-- Oliver Cromwell
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-Necessity is a mother.
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--- Neophyte's serendipity.
--- Exclusive dedication to necessitious chores without interludes of
-	hedonistic diversion renders John a hebetudinous fellow.
--- A revolving concretion of earthy or mineral matter accumulates no
-	congeries of small, green bryophytic plant.
--- The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the
-	optimal cachinnation.
--- Abstention from any aleatory undertaking precludes a potential
-	escallation of a lucrative nature.
--- Missiles of ligneous or osteal consistency have the potential of
-	fracturing osseous structure, but appellations will eternally
-	remain innocuous.
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-Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow.
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-Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
-		-- Saint Jerome
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-Never promise more than you can perform.
-		-- Publilius Syrus
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-Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together.
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-Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after.
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-Nice guys don't finish nice.
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-Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.
-		-- Evan Davis
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-Nice guys finish last.
-		-- Leo Durocher
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-Nice guys get sick.
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-No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
-		-- Aesop
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-No evil can happen to a good man.
-		-- Plato
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-No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
-		-- Aristotle
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-No good deed goes unpunished.
-		-- Clare Booth Luce
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-None love the bearer of bad news.
-		-- Sophocles
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-Not everything worth doing is worth doing well.
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-Nothing endures but change.
-		-- Heraclitus
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-Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a
-proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-		-- John Keats
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-Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit.
-	[There is no great genius without some touch of madness.]
-		-- Seneca
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-Often things ARE as bad as they seem!
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-Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
-		-- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
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-Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
-		-- Homer
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-One good turn asketh another.
-		-- John Heywood
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-One good turn deserves another.
-		-- Gaius Petronius
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-One good turn usually gets most of the blanket.
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-One man's Mede is another man's Persian.
-		-- George M. Cohan
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-One picture is worth more than ten thousand words.
-		-- Chinese proverb
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-Oppernockity tunes but once.
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-Out of sight is out of mind.
-		-- Arthur Clough
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-		-- Owen Meredith
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-Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
-		-- Titus Maccius Plautus
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-Pauca sed matura.
-	[Few but excellent.]
-		-- Gauss
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-Pereant, inquit, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.
-	[Confound those who have said our remarks before us.]
-	or
-	[May they perish who have expressed our bright ideas before us.]
-		-- Aelius Donatus
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-Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
-		-- Don Marquis
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-Plus ,ca change, plus c'est la m^eme chose.
-	[The more things change, the more they remain the same.]
-		-- Alphonse Karr, "Les Gu^epes"
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-Practice yourself what you preach.
-		-- Titus Maccius Plautus
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-Praise the sea; on shore remain.
-		-- John Florio
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-Pray to God, but keep rowing to shore.
-		-- Russian Proverb
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-Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
-		-- Publilius Syrus
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-Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
-	[Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.]
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-Remembering is for those who have forgotten.
-		-- Chinese proverb
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-Removing the straw that broke the camel's back does not necessarily
-allow the camel to walk again.
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-Rome was not built in one day.
-		-- John Heywood
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-Rome wasn't burnt in a day.
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-Rotten wood cannot be carved.
-		-- Confucius, "Analects", Book 5, Ch. 9
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--- Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid minikin.
--- Members of an avian species of identical plumage congregate.
--- Surveillance should precede saltation.
--- Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.
--- It is fruitless to become lachrymose over precipitately departed
-	lacteal fluid.
--- Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude.
--- It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated
-	canine with innovative maneuvers.
--- Eschew the implement of correction and vitiate the scion.
--- The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly
-	galled saucepan does not reach 212 degrees Farenheit.
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-Scintillation is not always identification for an auric substance.
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-Seek simplicity -- and distrust it.
-		-- Alfred North Whitehead
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-Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
-		-- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
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-Set the cart before the horse.
-		-- John Heywood
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-Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait.
-	[If youth but knew, if old age but could.]
-		-- Henri Estienne
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-Sic transit gloria Monday!
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-Sic transit gloria mundi.
-	[So passes away the glory of this world.]
-		-- Thomas `a Kempis
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-Sic Transit Gloria Thursdi.
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-Small change can often be found under seat cushions.
-		-- One of Lazarus Long's most penetrating insights
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-Small is beautiful.
-		-- Schumacher's Dictum
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-Stop searching forever.  Happiness is just next to you.
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-Stop searching forever.  Happiness is unattainable.
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-Stop searching.  Happiness is right next to you.  Now, if they'd only
-take a bath ...
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-Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.
-		-- Thomas Tusser
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-The coast was clear.
-		-- Lope de Vega
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-The course of true anything never does run smooth.
-		-- Samuel Butler
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-The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
-		-- Anaxagoras
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-The early worm gets the bird.
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-The early worm gets the late bird.
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-The ends justify the means.
-		-- after Matthew Prior
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-The greatest love is a mother's, then a dog's, then a sweetheart's.
-		-- Polish proverb
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-The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
-		-- Plato
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-The light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an approaching train.
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-The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming dragon.
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-The man who runs may fight again.
-		-- Menander
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-The man who sees, on New Year's day, Mount Fuji, a hawk, and an eggplant
-is forever blessed.
-		-- Old Japanese proverb
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-The meek will inherit the earth -- if that's OK with you.
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-The more the merrier.
-		-- John Heywood
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-The more things change, the more they stay insane.
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-The more things change, the more they'll never be the same again.
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-The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
-		-- Pliny the Elder
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-The only constant is change.
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-The only problem with seeing too much is that it makes you insane.
-		-- Phaedrus
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-The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-		-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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-"The porcupine with the sharpest quills gets stuck on a tree more often."
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-The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
-		-- Miguel de Cervantes
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-The reverse side also has a reverse side.  
-		-- Japanese proverb
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-The road to Hades is easy to travel.
-		-- Bion
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-The superfluous is very necessary.
-		-- Voltaire
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-The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled
-culinary vessel will not achieve 100 degrees on the Celsius scale.
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-The worst is enemy of the bad.
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--- The writing implement is more potent than the claymore.
--- All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.
--- When there are visible vapors having the prevenience in ignited carbonaceous
-	materials, there is conflagration.
--- Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.
--- A plethora of individuals wither expertise in culinary techniques vitiated
-	the potable concoction produced by steeping certain coupestibles.
--- The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the
-	optimal cachinnation.
--- Eleemosynary deeds have their initial incidence intramurally.
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-There are more things in heaven and earth than any place else.
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-There are more ways of killing a cat than choking her with cream.
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-There is no fool to the old fool.
-		-- John Heywood
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-There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
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-There is no proverb that is not true.
-		-- Cervantes
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-There's an old proverb that says just about whatever you want it to.
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-There's no heavier burden than a great potential.
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-There's no such thing as a free lunch.
-		-- Milton Friendman
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-There's no such thing as an original sin.
-		-- Elvis Costello
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-There's no time like the pleasant.
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-Things are more like they are today than they ever were before.
-		-- Dwight Eisenhower
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-Things are more like they used to be than they are now.
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-Things are not always what they seem.
-		-- Phaedrus
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-Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.
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-Thou hast seen nothing yet.
-		-- Miguel de Cervantes
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-Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
-		-- Benjamin Franklin
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-Time and tide wait for no man.
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-Time as he grows old teaches all things.
-		-- Aeschylus
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-Time flies like an arrow.  Fruit flies like a banana.
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-Time goes, you say?
-Ah no!
-Time stays, *we* go.
-		-- Austin Dobson
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-Time sure flies when you don't know what you're doing.
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-To add insult to injury.
-		-- Phaedrus
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-To err is human, but I can REALLY foul things up.
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-To err is human, but when the eraser wears out before the pencil,
-you're overdoing it a little.
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-To err is human, to forgive is against company policy.
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-To err is human, to forgive unusual.
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-To err is human, to moo bovine.
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-To err is human, to purr feline.
-To err is human, two curs canine.
-To err is human, to moo bovine.
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-To err is human, to repent, divine, to persist, devilish.
-		-- Benjamin Franklin
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-To err is human.
-To blame someone else for your mistakes is even more human.
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-To err is human; to admit it, a blunder.
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-To err is human; to forgive is simply not our policy.
-		-- MIT Assasination Club
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-To err is humor.
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-To every Ph.D. there is an equal and opposite Ph.D.
-		-- B. Duggan
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-Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
-		-- Publilius Syrus
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-Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.
-		-- Arabian proverb
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-Truth can wait; he's used to it.
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-Turn the other cheek.
-		-- Jesus Christ
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-Two heads are better than one.
-		-- John Heywood
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-Two heads are more numerous than one.
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-Two is company, three is an orgy.
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-Two wrongs are only the beginning.
-		-- Kohn
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-Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
-		-- Thomas Szasz
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-Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
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-Walking on water wasn't built in a day.
-		-- Jack Kerouac
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-We are what we are.
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-We are what we pretend to be.
-		-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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-We have seen the light at the end of the tunnel, and it's out.
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-Well begun is half done.
-		-- Aristotle
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-What fools these morals be!
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-What fools these mortals be.
-		-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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-What one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
-		-- John Lilly
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-What one fool can do, another can.
-		-- Ancient Simian Proverb
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-What we wish, that we readily believe.
-		-- Demosthenes
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-What you don't know can hurt you, only you won't know it.
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-What you don't know won't help you much either.
-		-- D. Bennett
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-Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.
-		-- Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil)
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-When in doubt, follow your heart.
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-When in doubt, use brute force.
-		-- Ken Thompson
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-When nothing can possibly go wrong, it will.
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-When the ax entered the forest, the trees said, "The handle is one of us!"
-		-- Turkish proverb
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-When the blind lead the blind they will both fall over the cliff.
-		-- Chinese proverb
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-When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.
-		-- Lynch
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-When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping.
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-When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-		-- Hunter S. Thompson
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-When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look
-like a nail.
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-When the sun shineth, make hay.
-		-- John Heywood
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-When we talk of tomorrow, the gods laugh.
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-When you are at Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live
-as they live elsewhere.
-		-- St. Ambrose
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-When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut.
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-When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable,
-must be the truth.
-		-- Sherlock Holmes, "The Sign of Four"
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-Where there are visible vapors, having their prevenance in ignited
-carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration.
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-Where there is much light there is also much shadow.
-		-- Goethe
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-While there's life, there's hope.
-		-- Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
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-Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
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-Whom the mad would destroy, first they make Gods.
-		-- Bernard Levin
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-Without fools there would be no wisdom.
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-Words are the voice of the heart.
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-Words can never express what words can never express.
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-Words have a longer life than deeds.
-		-- Pindar
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-Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
-		-- John Heywood
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-You buttered your bread, now lie in it.
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-You can drive a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead.
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-You can fool some of the people all of the time,
-and all of the people some of the time,
-but you can make a fool of yourself anytime.
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-You can fool some of the people all of the time,
-and all of the people some of the time,
-but you can never fool your Mom.
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-You can fool some of the people some of the time,
-and some of the people all of the time,
-and that is sufficient.
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-You can get everything in life you want, if you will help enough other
-people get what they want.
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-You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a
-kind word alone.
-		-- Al Capone
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-You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard.
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-You can make it illegal, but you can't make it unpopular.
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-You can move the world with an idea, but you have to think of it first.
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-You can never do just one thing.
-		-- Hardin
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-You can't break eggs without making an omelet.
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-You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
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-You cannot see the wood for the trees.
-		-- John Heywood
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-You get what you pay for.
-		-- Gabriel Biel
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-You k'n hide de fier, but w'at you gwine do wid de smoke?
-		-- Joel Chandler Harris, proverbs of Uncle Remus
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-Zhizn' prozhit'--ne pole pereiti.
-	[Life's a bitch.]
-	[Well, okay.  lit., to live through life is not as simple as crossing
-	 a field.  Happy now?]
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