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Famous Sayings Proverbs and Quotations - 45
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Isarel Gallegos
The lottery is a tax on people who flunked math.
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Carl Sandburg, Chicago Poems (1916) "Fog"
The fog comes on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
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Elbert Hubbard
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
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Laurence J. Peter
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
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Hendry Adams
They know enough who know how to learn.
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Vicomte de Chateaubriand, Memoirs (1826-1841)
One does not learn how to die by killing others.
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Norman Cousins
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Edward Thorndike
Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
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Juvenal
You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
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Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. patent office, 1899 (attributed)
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
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Aristophanes
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war . . .
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