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Silly Proverbs and Quotations - 172
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Lord Newborough, Motto
Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.
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Robert Benchley
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
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James Burke
Courtly love-poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinence on the Crusades, but it would not have flourished in the cold of northern Europe without some help from the chimney.
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Elizabeth Peters
The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal--or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.
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Woodrow Wilson
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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Bertrand Russell
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Johann von Goethe
The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
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Elie Wiesel
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
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Henry Ford
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
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Cynthia Ozick
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
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