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That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience that compels experience to conform to bookish preconceptions.
That person is a couple of tapes short of a full backup...
That person lacks wisdom who reaches down to tie their shoelace when walking through the neighbor's watermelon patch.
-- Confucius Say...
That person who falls in love with self alone, falls in love with one of the meanest mortals known.
That person who is so totally insured that only "acts of God" will not be covered will soon be shocked to find out the many things God can do.
That politics has a bearing on business confidence is unproven. -- Mark Epernay
That possession was the strongest tenure of the law.
-- Pilpay (or Bidpai) -- The Cat and the two Birds, Chap. v, Fable iv...
That power Which erring men call Chance. -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Comus, Line 587
That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book iv, Line 122...
That proverbial saying, "Ill news goes quick and far.
-- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Inquisitivene...

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