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Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing.
Scandal
Paul Chatfield

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Half a truth is better than no politics.
Politicians and Politics
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Half-starved spiders prey'd on half-starved flies.
Famine
Charles Churchill

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No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.
Enthusiasm
William Cowper

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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
Belief
Dinah Mulock Craik

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The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Parents and Parenting
Clarence Darrow

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The biggest waste of water in the country is when you spend half a pint and flush two gallons.
Waste
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

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In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
Fools and Foolishness
George Eliot

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.
Courage
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.
Heaven
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
Right and Rightness
Malcolm S. Forbes

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Half wits talk much, but say little.
Speakers and Speaking
Benjamin Franklin

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If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
Wish and Wishing
Benjamin Franklin

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
Marriage
Benjamin Franklin

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A sin confessed is half forgiven.
Sin
French Proverb

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.
Time and Time Management
French Proverb

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Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
Hell
Robert Frost

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A man surprised is half beaten.
Surprises
Thomas Fuller

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There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.
Procrastination
David Lloyd George

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Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
Flattery
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
Power
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
Fame
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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The beginning is the half of every action.
Beginning
Greek Proverb

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Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule.
Ridicule
Franz Grillparzer

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Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
Caution
A. W. Hare

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun