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Chinese Proverb:On a journey of a hundred miles,


On a journey of a hundred miles, ninety is but half way.
by Chinese Proverb


Robert Half:The delicate balance between modesty


The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
by Robert Half


Edmund Burke:Nothing is so fatal to religion as


Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity.
by Edmund Burke


Benjamin Franklin:Keep your eyes wide open


Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
by Benjamin Franklin


Gamaliel Bailey:Who never doubted, never half


Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
by Gamaliel Bailey


Barbra Streisand:Success to me is having ten


Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and only eating the top half of each one.
by Barbra Streisand


Alfred Lord Tennyson:A lie which is half a truth


A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
by Alfred Lord Tennyson


Thomas Hardy:Yes; quaint and curious war is!


Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down You'd treat if met where any bar is, Or help to half-a-crown.
by Thomas Hardy


William Temple:A bird in the hand is safer


A bird in the hand is safer thantwo overhead. All courageous animals are carnivorous, and greater courage is to be expected in a people, such as the English, whose food is strong and hearty, than in the half starved commonalty of other countries.
by William Temple


Goncourt:Today I begin to understand what love


Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
by Goncourt


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