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  2. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    If you cannot beat them, join them; If you cannot live longer, live deeper; If you cannot stand the heat, get out of the kitchen; If you give a mouse a cookie, he'll always ask for a glass of milk; If you think that you know everything, then you're a Jack ass; If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

  3. 100 of the Best Quotes from Famous People - AOL

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    Famous people, famous quotes. Many of the most memorable quotations are attributed to famous people (whether they actually said them or not!). In honor of Reader’s Digest’s 100th anniversary ...

  4. There are unknown unknowns - Wikipedia

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    Rumsfeld during a Pentagon news briefing in February 2002 "There are unknown unknowns" is a phrase from a response United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave to a question at a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) news briefing on February 12, 2002, about the lack of evidence linking the government of Iraq with the supply of weapons of mass destruction to terrorist groups. [1]

  5. The Yale Book of Quotations - Wikipedia

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    Bartlett's Familiar Quotations attributed the exchange to Sandwich and John Wilkes, based upon a 1935 book. "Go West, young man" was indeed by Horace Greeley. As The Yale Book of Quotations describes in a detailed note, many reference works, including Bartlett's and The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, wrongly attribute it to John Soule.

  6. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - Wikipedia

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    The book began with quotations originally in English, arranged them chronologically by author; Geoffrey Chaucer was the first entry and Mary Frances Butts the last. The quotes were chiefly from literary sources. A "miscellaneous" section followed, including quotations in English from politicians and scientists, such as "fifty-four forty or fight!".

  7. Delphic maxims - Wikipedia

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    The three best known maxims – "Know thyself", "Nothing in excess", and "Give a pledge and trouble is at hand" – were prominently located at the entrance to the temple, and were traditionally said to have been authored by the legendary Seven Sages of Greece, or even by Apollo. In fact, they are more likely to have simply been popular proverbs.

  8. List of oracular statements from Delphi - Wikipedia

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    Some early oracular statements from Delphi may have been delivered to Lycurgus, the semi-legendary Spartan lawgiver (fl. 8th century BC).. According to the report by Herodotus (Histories A.65, 2–4), Lycurgus visited and consulted the oracle before he applied his new laws to Sparta,

  9. Know thyself - Wikipedia

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    The three sayings were traditionally said to have originated with the Seven Sages, a legendary group of philosophers and statesmen who flourished in the 6th century BC. [5] The first known reference to the Seven Sages is in Plato's Protagoras, where they are said to have collectively authored the first two maxims.