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It is a difficult thing for a man to resist the natural necessity of mortal passions.
-- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of those whom God is slow to punish...
It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. -- J.
de La Fontaine (1621-1695) -- The Cock and the Fox, Book ii, Fable 15...
It is a fact, Jamie, that I do tend to get involved with things. -- Doctor, The War Game
It is a fairly good sign that you are obsessive-compulsive when you don't celebrate Ash Wednesday by receiving ashes because you don't want to get your forehead dirty.
It is a faith (not always justified) of theoretical physics that if man proposes what is sufficiently elegant, nature, pleased and flattered, will say yes.
-- Leon N. Cooper, Introduction To The Me...
It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Merry Wives of Windsor -- Act i, Sc.
1...
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done
it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known....
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith...
It is a foolish man who tests the depth of the river with both feet at the same time.
Often this person tests just one river....
It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest. -- John Heywood (c.
1565) -- Proverbes, Part ii, Chap. v...

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