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What is told into the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away.
Secrets
Chinese Proverb

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Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.
Writers and Writing
Charles Churchill

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.
Speakers and Speaking
Winston Churchill

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Change
Winston Churchill

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We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.
Anxiety
Winston Churchill

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A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
Fools and Foolishness
John Churton Collins

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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never.
Love
Charles Caleb Colton

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Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
Humor
Charles Caleb Colton

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Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
Argument
Charles Caleb Colton

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Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.
Pity
Charles Caleb Colton

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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
Knowledge
Charles Caleb Colton

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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
Fear
Charles Caleb Colton

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Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
Music
William Congreve

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One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
Grief
Pierre Corneille

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Square meals often make round people.
Food and Eating
E. Joseph Cossman

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The greatest power is often simple patience.
Power
E. Joseph Cossman

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The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation.
Inspiration
Comer Cotrell

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I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.
Memory
Noel Coward

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Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins.
Winners and Winning
Frank Dane

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Opportunity
Demosthenes

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The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.
Logic
Bernard Devoto

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Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
Mind
Charles Dickens

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I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
Acting and Actors
Denis Diderot

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What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
Sincerity
Benjamin Disraeli

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Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
Maturity
Thomas A. Edison

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