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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with the old woes new wail my dear time's waste.
[...] But if the whi...
When traveling, the sages say, one must always be prepared to accept local customs.
Yet there are areas of this very kingdom where one might find it customary to tax a wizard into poverty...
When traveling with a herd of elephants, don't be the first to lie down and rest.
-- McEwan's Rule of Relative Importance...
When traveling with children on one's holidays, at least one child of any number of children will request a rest room stop exactly half way between any two given rest rooms.
-- Mervyn Cripp...
When travelling overseas, the exchange rate improves markedly the day after one has purchased foreign currency.
-- Angus' Exchange Axiom Upon returning home, the rate drops again as soon as one has c...
When true hearts lie wither'd And fond ones are flown, Oh, who would inhabit This bleak world alone?
-- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- The Last Rose of Summe...
When truth entails tremendous ruin, lies are pardoned.
When turkeys mate, they think of swans. -- Johnny Carso
When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love.
-- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- When Twilight Dew...
When two divorced people marry, four get into bed.

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