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A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
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A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
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A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.
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A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
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A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
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A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
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A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
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A lot of people say to me, ''Why did you kill Christ?'' ''I dunno... it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know.'' ''We killed him because he didn't want to become a doctor, that's why we killed him.''
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A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
The Scarlet Letter (1850) Ch XII -
A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have
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A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.
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A sumptuous dwelling the rich man hath. And dainty is his repast; but remember that luxury's prodigal hand keeps the furnace of toil in blast.
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A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept at planning their crimes, and few of their capers met with any success; most seemed to end within moments of starting, usually after a fatherly pilot convinced the nervous teen to hand over his gun.
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