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You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
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-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
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-- Adlai Stevenson Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
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No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
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