Better a bad excuse, than none at all.


William Camden

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Regrets? None at all.
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And so we all matter-maybe less than a lot, but always more than none
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Better halfe a loafe than no bread.
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An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.
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Chance is a nickname for Providence. [Fr., Le hasard est un sobriquet de la Providence.]
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God sendeth cold after clothes.
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The early bird catches the worm.
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The sea hath fish for every man.
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Agree, for the law is costly.
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He that mischief hatcheth, mischief catcheth
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Betwixt the stirrup and the ground / Mercy I asked, mercy I found.
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A zealous locksmith died of late,
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Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by...
WILLIAM PENN
A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with t...
WILLIAM PENN
For we put the power in the people.
WILLIAM PENN
They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.
WILLIAM PENN
I return you many thanks for the honour you have done me; but Europe is not to be saved by any singl...
WILLIAM PITT
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE