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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
— James Thurber

You can never plan the future by the past.
— Edmund Burke

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
— Charles Caleb Colton

Remember, that itme is money.
— Benjamin Franklin

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
— Henry David Thoreau

Life is one long process of getting tired.
— Samuel Butler

Women are like tricks by slight of hand, which, to admire, we should not understand.
— William Congreve

Necessity never made a good bargain.
— Benjamin Franklin

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.
— Anton Chekhov

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
— William Congreve

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
— Benjamin Franklin

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in the closet.
— Earl of Chesterfield

He has no hope who never had a fear.
— William Cowper

But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
— Benjamin Franklin

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
— Earl of Chesterfield

His mind his kingdom, and his will his law.
— William Cowper

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
— Benjamin Franklin

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
— Earl of Chesterfield

It is better to wear out than to rust out.
— Bishop Richard Cumberland

Many have been ruined by buying good pennyworths.
— Benjamin Franklin

We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.
— Bishop Berkeley

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.
— Sir William Blackstone

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
— William Blake

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
— Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke

We have not succeeded in answering all your problems. The answers we have found only serve to raise a whole set of new questions. In some ways we feel we are as confused as ever, but we believe we are confused on a higher level and about more important things.
— Joe Hunt