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The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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-- N. D. Stice "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Recreation and Sports
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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
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-- E. W. Howe I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
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Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
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-- Walter Savage Landor Recreation and Sports "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) He who awaits much can expect little.
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True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
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-- Friedrich Nietzsch A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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-- Robert Benchley Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
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Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
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