Gorgacce - Assorted properties in several areas. Maps, descriptions, photographs and pricing.
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-- Erma Bombeck The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
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-- George Bernard Shaw Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
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-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager By Owner People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
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-- Will Rogers Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
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