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Fretting Quote by Hank Aaron

“The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.” quote by Hank Aaron — Download Open image

“The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.”

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Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they…

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If God had wanted us to spend all our time fretting about the problems of home ownership, He would never have created beer. This is not to say that I am recommending that you totally ignore your responsibilities as a homeowner and just sit around all day with a can of beer in your hand. No indeed, I have long…

Fretting grief the enemy of life.

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A gentleman is calm and spacious: the vulgar are always fretting.

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Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections…

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“Don't get your balls crossed about it.”

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When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it,…

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There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.

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