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  • "Logic works, metaphysics contemplates. "

    — Joseph Joubert

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    • After victory, tighten your helmet chord."
      — Japanese Proverb

      Spelling of "chord" was disscorrdant!

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      • "Four wheels move the body. Two wheels move the soul."

        — Unattributed

        So many possibilities!

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        • "Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs. "
          — Jean Paul Richter

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          • "The keener the want the lustier the growth"
            —Wendell Phillips
            I thought "lustier" was either "nastier" or "loftier"

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            • "So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you. "
              — Seneca

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              • Edward Forster -- "Lord I disbelieve--help thou my unbelief."

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                • Unattributed---"So much fabric, so little time! Or, sew much fabric, sew little time."

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                  • "The owl of ignorance lays the egg of pride. "
                    -Proverb

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                    • Unattributed--"Old men and far travelers may lie with authority." All those 3-letter-words were tough! I finally saw "authority."

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                      • "Age, like distance lends a double charm. "
                        — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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                        • Honest hearts produce honest actions.--Brigham Young

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                          • "The land of my fathers? My fathers can have it."
                            — Dylan Thomas

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                            • "A mass of men equals a mass of opinions. "
                              — Daniel Webster


                              I thought this was SO hard! I finally saw "opinions" and started there ... and couldn't believe, afterward, that that word even occurred to me when facing down that blank canvas.

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                              • "Curiosity has its own reason for existing." - Albert Einstein

                                Why does the Puzzle Baron hate me so? And Albert Einstein too, for that matter ...

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