Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

Where the hedge is low everyone will cross it.

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Enough | Self |

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Italian Proverbs

When a man has fallen into the mire, the more he flounders the more he fouls himself.

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Dishonesty | Life | Life | Little | People | Reason | Self | Sense | Truth | Words | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

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Story | Writing |

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Italian Proverbs

When the cat's away, the mice will play.

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Self | Sense | World |

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J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

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Appreciation | Art | Faith | Heart | Life | Life | Meaning | Means | Mind | People | Religion | Appreciation | Art |

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Italian Proverbs

Who serves well and says nothing makes claim enough.

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Meaning | Sound |

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Ivan Oransky

[In medical school] I didn't have a course called ?How to Think Skeptically.?

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Meaning | Respect | Respect |

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J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it.

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Beginning | Evidence | Life | Life | Meaning | Sense | Worry |

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J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

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Compassion | Intolerance | Meaning | Means | People | Pity | Practice | Religion | Time | World |

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J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit.

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Meaning | Noise | Unique | Will | Poem |

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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Friendship with Lewis compensates for much, and besides giving constant pleasure and comfort has done me much good from the contact with a man at once honest, brave, intellectual--a scholar, a poet, and a philosopher--and a lover, at least after a long pilgrimage, of Our Lord.

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