"Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought." — Black Francis

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• I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a… — Paul Thomas Anderson
• A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the… — Thomas Huxley
• America is full of businesses bearing old Christian names, but which are really owned and run by Jews. Most of… — Samuel Roth

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