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When no wind blows, even the weather vane has character.
When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance.
-- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death...
When on a roll, should you be concerned or jelly-filled?
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it.
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When once infidelity can persuade men that they shall die like beasts, they will soon be brought to live like beasts also.
-- South...
When one asked him what boys should learn, "That," said he, "which they shall use when men.
-- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Laconic Apophthegms, Of Agesilaus the Grea...
When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes. -- Dylan Thoma
When one considers just what man is, Happy it be that short his span is. -- James Cagney
When one does not know what to say, it is a time to be silent.
When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
-- Alexander Graham Bell...

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