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AFTERNOON: That part of the day we spend worrying about how we wasted the morning.
Afternoon very favorable for romance. Try a single person for a change.
Against Idleness and Mischief How doth the little busy bee How skillfully she builds her cell!
Improve each shining hour, How neat she spreads the wax!...
Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.
-- Friedrich von Schiller, "The Maid of Orleans", III, 6...
Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill.
Age is a tyrant who forbids, at the penalty of life, all the pleasures of youth.
Agnes' Law: Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of.
Agree with them now, it will save so much time.
Ah, but a man's grasp should exceed his reach, Or what's a heaven for ?
-- Robert Browning, "Andrea del Sarto...
Ah, my friends, from the prison, they ask unto me, "How good, how good does it feel to be free?
And I answer them most mysteriously: "Are birds free from the chains of the sky-way?...

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