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Sometimes she sank, sometimes she swam,
Until she cam to the miller's dam.
(Unknown. Binnorie; or, The Two Sisters (l. 21-22). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.
(Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.), Greek didactic poet. Works and Days, 825.)
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Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.
(Franηois, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French writer, moralist. repr. F.A. Stokes Co., New York (c. 1930). Moral Maxims and Reflections, no. 149 (1665-1678), trans. London (1706).)
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He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
(James Thurber (1894-1961), U.S. humorist, illustrator. "The Glass in the Field," The Thurber Carnival (1945).)
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
(Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British statesman, author. Coningsby, bk. 7, ch. 5 (1844).)
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We all go a little mad sometimes.
(Joseph Stefano, U.S. screenwriter, and Alfred Hitchcock. Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), in Psycho (1960).)
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Self-hatred is sometimes appropriate.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fourteenth Selection, New York (1994).)
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Sometimes "Yes" is rhetoric enough.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fourteenth Selection, New York (1994).)
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