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  2. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    Better safe than sorry; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven; Be yourself; Better the Devil you know (than the Devil you do not) Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all; Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness; Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt; Better ...

  3. Portal:Clothing/Selected quote - Wikipedia

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    And don't go about women in that old calico. You do a girl tolerable poor, but you might fool men, maybe. Bless you, child, when you set out to thread a needle don't hold the thread still and fetch the needle up to it; hold the needle still and poke the thread at it; that's the way a woman most always does, but a man always does t'other way.

  4. All men are created equal - Wikipedia

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    All men are by nature equally free and independent. Such equality is necessary in order to create a free government. All men must be equal to each other in natural law. Jefferson also may have been influenced by Thomas Paine's Common Sense, which was published in early 1776: Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis, 1778. He is credited with ...

  5. H. H. Asquith - Wikipedia

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    Asquith was more of a committee chair than a dynamic leader. He oversaw national mobilisation, the dispatch of the British Expeditionary Force to the Western Front, the creation of a mass army and the development of an industrial strategy designed to support the country's war aims. The war became bogged down and there was a call for better ...

  6. 7 things science says women do better than men - AOL

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    As women have 2 of them to men's 1, they are better able to distinguish both red's variations and how that hue interacts with the other colors. SEE ALSO: A Bill Nye show is coming to Netflix Number 6.

  7. If wishes were horses, beggars would ride - Wikipedia

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    The reference to horses was first in James Carmichael's Proverbs in Scots printed in 1628, which included the lines: "And wishes were horses, pure [poor] men wald ride". [4] The first mention of beggars is in John Ray 's Collection of English Proverbs in 1670, in the form "If wishes would bide, beggars would ride". [ 4 ]

  8. List of Latin phrases (full) - Wikipedia

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    nothing [is] heavy with wings: i.e., "nothing is heavy to those who have wings"; motto of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil alis volat propriis: she flies with her own wings: Motto of the State of Oregon, adopted in 1987, replacing the previous state motto of "The Union", which was adopted in 1957. alma mater ...

  9. The Gods of the Copybook Headings - Wikipedia

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    Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death." In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all, By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul; But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,