Zghazagh Azzjoni Kattolika - Details of a parish youth group, including information on past and present activities, and photographs.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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Youth is wasted on the young.
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Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
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"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
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were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
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-- Samuel Butler Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
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"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
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tender.
-- Mary Buckley Hal Tarxien
