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Laurence J. Peter, paraphrasing Sir Walter Scott


Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Jerry Coleman


There's a deep fly ball... Winfield goes back, back... his head hits the wall ... it's rolling towards second base.

Oscar Wildedmissions literature at Colby College.


Wisdom comes with winters.

Marge Piercy, Circles in the Water "Intruding"


The price of seeing is silence.

Virginia Woolf


Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations


How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

Samuel Goldwyn


I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Malcom X, My counselor, Mrs. Ross


I have no mercy or compassion for a society that crushes people, and then penalizes them for not being able to stand up under the weight.

Spiro Agnew


To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Eugene Ionesco


It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Terry Pratchet, Sourcery


I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?
Death thought about it.
Cats, he said eventually. Cats are nice.

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