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#2636 | | "Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?" he asked. "Begin at the beginning," the King said, gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop." Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
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#2637 | | A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. -- Thomas Jefferson
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#2638 | | To be awake is to be alive. -- Henry David Thoreau, in "Walden"
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#2639 | | A person with one watch knows what time it is; a person with two watches is never sure. Proverb
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#2640 | | You see but you do not observe. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"
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#2641 | | A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two. -- Seneca
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#2642 | | Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it. -- John Keats
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#2643 | | The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of space and time. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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#2644 | | What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens. -- Bengamin Disraeli
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#2645 | | Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant. -- Edmund Burke
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