Quotes 141 till 147 of 147.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.
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Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
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God's plan made a hopeful beginning. But man spoiled his chances by sinning. We trust that the story will end in God's glory. But, at present, the other side's winning.
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