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| Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread. |
| by Francis Bacon |
| The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. |
| by William Shakespeare |
| If you live to the age of a hundred, you have it made because very very few people die past the age of a hundred. |
| by George Burns |
| Vacillating people seldom succeed. They seldom win the solid respect of their fellow men. Successful men and women are very careful in reaching decisions and very persistent and determined in action thereafter. |
| by L.G. Elliott |
| Thirty-five is a very attractive age, London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. |
| by Oscar Wilde |
| Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. |
| by Thomas Carlyle |
| It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them. |
| by Charles C. Colton |
| You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things. |
| by Cleveland Amory |
| Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life. |
| by Jean Anouilh |
| Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art. |
| by Baltasar Gracian |
| The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. |
| by William Hazlitt |
| The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. |
| by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. |
| The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence. |
| by Jean La Bruyere |
| Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. |
| by John Ruskin |
| My patience to his fury, and am arm'd to suffer, with a quietness of spirit, the very tyranny and rage of his. |
| by William Shakespeare |
| To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. |
| by Mark Twain |
| Love is very real, you will find it someday, but it has one enemy-and that's life. |
| by Unknown |
| You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. |
| by Albert Einstein |
| The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a mans resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear. |
| by François La Rochefoucauld |
| "I'm very brave generally," he went on in a low voice: "only today I happen to have a headache." |
| by Lewis Carroll |
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