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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.


Laurence J. Peter

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SIR WALTER SCOTT Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to conceive
DON HEROLD Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive
SIR WALTER SCOTT Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive
WALTER SCOTT Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!
SIR WALTER SCOTT Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! - Marmion.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
SIR WALTER SCOTT O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
WALTER SCOTT O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!
SIR WALTER SCOTT Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think their children are naïve.
OGDEN NASH Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
OGDEN NASH Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
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LAYTON ALIVIADO We are what we are.
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MO IBRAHIM "Since we don't always get we want, the growth is in making what we get, what we want." - Simcha Glu...
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SATHESH KUMAR M The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.
E.LOCKHART اگر میخواهید جایی زندگی کنید که مردمش از موش ها نمیترسن...
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E. LOCKHART Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark.
Mirren, she is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
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ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
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LAURENCE OVERMIRE Look into the world
LAURENCE STERNE Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his ...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he know...
LAURENCE LEE Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners
LAURENCE STERNE I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally boun...
LAURENCE STERNE Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
LAURENCE STERNE We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
LAURENCE STERNE For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
LAURENCE STERNE 'Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; a...
LAURENCE STERNE I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to t...
LAURENCE STERNE I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and wen...
LAURENCE FISHBURNE First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but h...
LAURENCE STERNE When ever a person talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not their reason, but th...
LAURENCE STERNE Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong,...
LAURENCE STERNE There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
LAURENCE STERNE People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they nev...
LAURENCE STERNE Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature...
LAURENCE STERNE Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
LAURENCE STERNE So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither c...
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