A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
-- Francesco Petrarch
-- Francesco Petrarch
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Francesco... - How fortune brings to earth the oversure!
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Francesco... - Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Francesco... - The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for
what is dazzling.
Francesco... - How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation
from the rocks of ignorance. --... - If you want to do it, do it!
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Francesco Scavullo (from his... - Take the short-cut to
Geodesic Park... - Anything cut to length will be too
short... - A computer, to print out a fact,
Will divide, multiply,
and subtract. But this output can be No more than...
From the same category:
- Poetry: the best words in the best order.
Samuel Taylor... - Don't hit the keys so hard,
it hurts... - Nothing is more useful than silence.
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Menander (B.C. 342... - All the great pleasures of life are silent.
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Georges Clemenceau (1841... - I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself.
They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter...
