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To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.
― Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
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To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.
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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead - somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man - somewhere these, too, come together.
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To my little sick pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.
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To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century.
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To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
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To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''
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To treat a ''big'' subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.
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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
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Tragedy and comedy are but two aspects of what is real, and whether we see the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective.
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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
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Truth be told, most financial television bores me. Two or more people discussing the latest economic trends or hot stocks is not especially entertaining.
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Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
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Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore;
The Muses are ten, the Graces are four;
Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face;
She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace.Source: Epigrams Epigram 5; translation by Jonathan Swift, cited fr -
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
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Two hours is about as long as any American can wait for the close of a baseball game, or anything else for that matter.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
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