"Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But……" — Samuel Johnson

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• If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you… — Margaret Atwood
• God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so… — Teresa of Avila
• To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine… — Honore de Balzac
• Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward. — Ambrose Bierce
• Incredibly, almost every hotel I ever played in Vegas was blown up shortly afterward: The Dunes, The Sands, The Landmark,… — Elayne Boosler
• The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward. — Shana Alexander
• Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards. — Lewis Carroll
• Sentence first, verdict afterwards. — Lewis Carroll
• During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
• I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won… — Amy Chua
• A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year.… — Winston Churchill
• We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on… — Thomas Aquinas

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