I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss
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Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your reader's mind, or miss it;Mbut talking is like playing at a ma
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I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is rea
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Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from t
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My grandfathers, my grandmothers and my mother hardly ever spanked at all. My grandfather said that if you spanked the little ones
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Experienced sportsmen tell us that the best moment to shoot partridges is when they rise out of the corn. It is more difficult to
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Miss Caswell: Now there's something a girl could make sacrifices for.
Bill: And probably has. ...
Bill: And probably has. ...
When you're crowned Miss America, they put you up on a pedestal. People really look up to you and they think you're perfect. They
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... they think that Miss America belongs to them! That they can touch her and give her a kiss on the cheek--or even on the lips!
"Miss Dudley ... gives one the idea of a lightly-sparred yacht in mid- ocean; unexpected; you ask yourself what the devil she is d
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