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Practice is everythingThis is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect. – Periander	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. – Honore' de Balzac	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many players on the field – Jim Boulton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. – Russell Baker	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What does education often do It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 14 years ago
How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins. – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them. – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I realize that I'm generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care. – Dave Barry	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me. – Dave Barry	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so jointed that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. – Logan Pearsall Smith	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In crises the most daring course is often safest. – Robert Francis Kennedy	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market. – Erich Fromm	added by anonymous 14 years ago
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. – Erich Fromm	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. – Jonathan Swift	added by anonymous 14 years ago
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Arguments are to be avoided they are always vulgar and often convincing. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 14 years ago
One's real life is often the life that one does not lead. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Doing a thing well is often a waste of time. – Robert Byrne	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Jesters do often prove prophets. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In time we hate that which we often fear. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Appearances often are deceiving. – Aesop	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. – Aesop	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Men often applaud an imitation, and hiss the real thing. – Aesop	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. – Aesop	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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