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I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language. — Mark Twain
There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something… — Edith Hamilton
A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print — Gregory Rabassa
There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it… — Thomas Huxley
Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way… — Cyril Connolly
There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your body… — Penelope Leach
Everything holds its breath except spring. She burts through as strong as ever. — B. M. Bower
The principle of the Constitution is that of a separation of legislative, Executive and Judiciary functions, except in cases specified. If this principle be not… — Thomas Jefferson
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity. — Walter Savage Landor
We in this country, in this generation, areby destiny rather than choicethe watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may… — John F. Kennedy
Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death. — Miguel de Cervantes
A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or… — Paul Valery
We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought. — Norman Cousins
We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold… — Joseph Joubert
It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it. — Maya Angelou
She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience, and mourns the… — Sara Paretsky
The fact is that all the recording science and technology in the world is no substitute for a good song or for real feeling. Music… — David Crosby
In Japan, I took part in a tea ceremony. You go into a small room, tea is served, and that's it really, except that everything… — Okakura Kakuzo
We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were. — Mort Sahl
You've got everything except one thing: madness! A man needs a little madness, or else... — Anthony Quinn

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