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“Somehow, everyone hates to see an unusually pretty girl get married. It is like taking a bite out of a very fine-looking peach.” quote by E. W. Howe — Download Open image

“Somehow, everyone hates to see an unusually pretty girl get married. It is like taking a bite out of a very fine-looking peach.”

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There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

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I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known.

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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

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Few men progress, except as they are pushed along by events.

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Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a…

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The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.

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The greatest thing in the world is for a man to be able to do something well, and say nothing about it.

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No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.

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People never have confidence in a Big Talker. They know his statements must be cut down, but they can never tell how much.

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The only gambling tip which amounts to anything is to keep out of the game.

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One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool

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No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

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I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death…

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Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into bite-sized pieces, essential components. You have to - you know, at this point I'm so used to operating within given assumptions about art. But when you're explaining art to art students or people who are new to this…

In every country dogges bite.

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I don't bite you know ... unless it's called for,

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While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you…

The way to get through anything mentally painful is to take it a little at a time. The mind can't handle dealing with a massive iceberg of pain in front of it, but it can deal with short nuggets that will come to an end. So instead of thinking, Ugh, I've got twenty-four miles to go, focus on making it…

Experience is the only real teacher and if you keep a diary you get three bites at educating yourself - when it happens, when you write it down, and when you reread it and realise you were wrong. Making mistakes is part of life. The only things I would feel ashamed of would be if I had said things I…

“If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned.”

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Our legal system, including the police, is anti-Dalit and anti-poor. The death penalty laws' wrathful majesty, in blood-shot equality, deals the fatal blow on the poor not the rich, the pariah not the brahmin, the black not the white, the underdog not the top dog, the dissenter not the conformist. . . The law barks at all but bites only…

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I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.

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If someone sits and stares at you while you eat, you won't even eat the way you normally do, because it'll make you so…

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Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it.

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