“ Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes in between them. ”
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“ There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good morals; it can destroy bad principles and re-create good ones; it can lift men to angelship. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back. ”
- Tom Brown- Copy
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“ I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes. I had one thousand and sixty. ”
- Imelda Marcos- Copy
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“ A man can hide all things, excepting twain - That he is drunk, and that he is in love. ”
- Antiphanes- Copy
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“ Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of paradise. - Mark Twain. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Marriage should be a duet — when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. ”
- Henry Lewis Stimson- Copy
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“ Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin. ”
- Hermann Hesse- Copy
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“ It is curious-curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. - Mark Twain. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back. ”
- Tom Brown- Copy
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“ The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Lie ten nights awake, carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose. - Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 3. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools. - As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall die. How a good yoke of bullocks at Stamford fair? - King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ I thought upon one pair of English legs Did march three Frenchmen. - King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 6. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ I do recommend it for all girls, and boys, out there: put on a pair of fishnet stockings and find your inner sexiness! ”
- Nia Vardalos- Copy
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“ We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again — and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parent twain in the yelk of an addled egg. We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart, But the devil never whoops, as he of old; It's clever, but is it art? ”
- Rudyard Kipling- Copy
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“ Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ There are two things in particular that it failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet ; the other was the fact that the century would end. ”
- Douglas Adams- Copy
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“ There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: Twins. ”
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