Miscellaneous Collections

Miscellaneous Collections

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Like rowers, who advance backward. -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap.
i, Of Profit and Honesty...
Likes and dislikes are among my favourite
Like sands in a swimsuit...so are the days of our lives.
Likes dunking for french fries.
Like sending owls to Athens, as the proverb goes. -- Diogenes Laertius (c.
200 AD) -- Plato, xxxii...
Like sentinel and nun, they keep Their vigil on the green.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Cambridge Churchyard...
Like ships, that sailed for sunny isles, But never came to shore.
-- Thomas K. Hervey (1799-1859) -- The Devil's Progre...
Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
-- Agnes Repplier (1858-1950) U.S. Essayi...
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr....
Like stones of worth, they thinly placed are, Or captain jewels in the carcanet.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Sonnets & other Poetry -- Sonnet lii...

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