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I *never* would have guessed you were that old!
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city.
I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop....
In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it.
-- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- That Everything is to be undertaken with Circumspection, -- Discourses, Book iii, Chap....
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty. -- Thomas Jefferso
In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
-- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) -- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776), Chap. xlviii...
In every enterprise consider where you would come out. -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 777
In every family tree there's sap.
In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star. -- Arthur Mache
In every hedge and ditch both day and night We fear our death, of every leafe affright.
-- Du Bartas (1544-1590) -- Divine Weekes and Workes, Second Week, First Day, Part iii...

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