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- Goethe Travel and Tourism
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
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Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
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Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
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