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If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.
Present
George Ade

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Enemies promises were made to be broken.
Enemies
Aesop

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We would often be sorry if our wishes were granted.
Wish and Wishing
Aesop

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If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
self-esteem
Alexander The Great

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You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete.
Service
Dr. Robert Anthony

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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
Wisdom
Aristophanes

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A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich.
Wealth
John Jacob Astor

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Love
St. Augustine

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I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.
Creation
St. Augustine

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The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
Victory
St. Augustine

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And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
Life and Living
Marcus Aurelius

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
Action
Marcus Aurelius

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
Action
Marcus Aurelius

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Acorns were good until bread was found.
Improvement
Francis Bacon

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Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
Dishonesty
George Bancroft

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Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
Hope
Bruce Barton

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If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?
Dreams
Thomas Lovell Beddoes

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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
Books - Reading
Hilaire Belloc

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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Consistency
Bernard Berenson

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Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were.
Tact and Tactfulness
George E. Bergman

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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.
Power
Sarah Boseley

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If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
Wives
Anne Bradstreet

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.
Success
Dorothea Brande

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Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
Impossibility
Louis D. Brandeis

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
Death and Dying
Emily Bronte

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