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He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.


Benjamin Franklin

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CAROLYN REBBERT Franklin had so many interests that we worked hard to get as much in as possible. He was interested ...
CAROLYN R. REBBERT He looked so beautiful, and it pissed me off that he could look so beautiful when he was so ugly.
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HUGO PADILLA He really didn’t care, but he tried to pretend he did.
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MAYA ESTUANI I had him in the corner of my eye. He's a good horse and he was the horse to beat, but I just got th...
JOSE LEZCANO Oh, that (darn) horse. Is he going to be out there on the field? I'm going to make Bobby ride him.
JOE PATERNO you're Shane, right?'
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NATHAN HILL Aside from all that, she was carrying about a million tons of titanium ore to the heavy industries o...
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JEFF LABAR He was agitated for some reason that he could not name. (page 35)
KATE DICAMILLO if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
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FRED VOSS It is mind-boggling to me that the Almighty power created everything I see; the Bible says that God ...
RICK WARREN He was so interested that $15 could feed a child for a month.
LAURI LEBO The horse was running to keep up because he was going so fast.
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GRETCHEN RUBIN He looked so comfortable and (Victor) looked like he had a lot of horse.
RICHARD MANDELLA She felt so human that he could barely carry on a conversation.
L.A. WEATHERLY He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in h...
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HOLLY SCHINDLER Death knew that to tinker with the fate of one individual could destroy the whole world. He knew thi...
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COREY KLINE Early on, he'd learned to enjoy simple things, things that couldn't be bought, and he had a hard tim...
NICHOLAS SPARKS There never was a good war, or a bad peace. -Benjamin Franklin.
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CORKY HELMS I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
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CHRIS MULLINS I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real sci...
LALLA WARD I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one w...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things on...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one...
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LINC ROTTMAN He was so narrow minded that if he fell on a pin it would blind him in both eyes
FRED ALLEN And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the...
BIBLE Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school...
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PIERRE-GILLES DE GENNES Last Saturday he set out to fix a screen upstairs. He went to the basement to get some nails. Downst...
THOMAS E. BROWN Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. A...
MARIO PUZO Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. ...
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THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Charles V said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so val...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Hugo learned that Prometheus had created humankind out of mud, and then stolen fire from the gods as...
BRIAN SELZNICK He potentially could be a witness, those types of things, so we can't really name him.
FRED SCALETTA

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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfort...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN One should eat to live, not live to eat.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervad...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you would keep your secret from an enemy,
tell it not to a friend.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN