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  • 41.
    A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
    ([H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki (1870-1916), Scottish author. "Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business," The Square Egg (1924).)
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  • 42.
    Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.
    (Marge Kennedy (20th century), U.S. writer, and Janet Spencer King, writer. The Single Parent Family, ch. 6 (1994).)
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  • 43.
    Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Culture," The Conduct of Life (1860).)
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  • 44.
    Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler,
    And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
    (George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), British poet. Don Juan, cto. 3, st. 22 (1819-1824).)
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  • 45.
    Humbly to ask a favour of people who are on the point of knocking your brains out sometimes produces good results.
    (Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. First published in 1953. Moran, in Molloy, p. 238, Grove Press (1970).)
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  • 46.
    Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
    (François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French writer, moralist. repr. F.A. Stokes Co., New York (c. 1930). Moral Maxims and Reflections, no. 130 (1665-1678), trans. London (1706).)
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  • 47.
    sometimes sleeping in the open
    I think backwhen I had you.
    (Gary Snyder (b. 1930), U.S. poet. Siwashing It Out Once (l. 15-16). . . No Nature; New and Selected Poems [Gary Snyder]. (1992) Pantheon Books.)
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  • 48.
    Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Autolycus, in The Winter's Tale, act 4, sc. 4, l. 712-3. The rogue finds it useful sometimes to tell the truth.)
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  • 49.
    Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.
    (Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Mrs. Cheveley, in An Ideal Husband, act 1.)
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  • 50.
    Nature, like us is sometimes caught
    Without her diadem.
    (Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. The Complete Poems, no. 1075 (1955).)
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