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We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
-- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)...
We read to say that we have read.
We really don't have any enemies. It's just that some of our best friends are trying to kill us.
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them. -- Thucydide
We seldom repent talking too little, but very often talking too much. -- Jean de la Bruyere
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stay 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...
We should be glad we're living in the time that we are.
If any of us had been born into a more enlightened age, I'm sure we would have immediately been taken out and shot....
We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if only words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
-- John Locke...
We should have a Vollyballocracy. We elect a six-pack of presidents.
Each one serves until they screw up, at which point they rotate. -- Dennis Mille...

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