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One Quotes by Norman Douglas
- To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him...two.
- One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
- How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
- The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.
- What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings—they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly…
- It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her…
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