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  • Fudi
    Member
    • Apr 2018
    • 164

    #331
    "Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face."
    — Dave Barry

    Success Rate:60.7%
    Average Time: 182 seconds
    Record Holder: 18 seconds (GramBow)

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    • Fudi
      Member
      • Apr 2018
      • 164

      #332
      Okay ... maybe I'm just trying to make a point ... could I do this all day?

      "Presents, I often say, endear absents. "
      — Charles Lamb

      Success Rate: 61.8%
      Average Time:144 seconds
      Record Time: 13 seconds (Kgun5)


      "Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. "
      — Henry Fielding

      Success Rate: 66.1%
      Average Time: 183 seconds
      Record Time: 35 seconds (nanrich)

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      • Eureka
        Member
        • Oct 2018
        • 330

        #333
        Originally posted by Fudi
        Okay ... maybe I'm just trying to make a point ... could I do this all day?

        "Presents, I often say, endear absents. "
        — Charles Lamb

        Success Rate: 61.8%
        Average Time:144 seconds
        Record Time: 13 seconds (Kgun5)


        "Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. "
        — Henry Fielding

        Success Rate: 66.1%
        Average Time: 183 seconds
        Record Time: 35 seconds (nanrich)
        Wowzers, Fudi. You ARE getting a lot of crazy ones this month!

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        • Fudi
          Member
          • Apr 2018
          • 164

          #334
          "No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries. "
          — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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          • Fudi
            Member
            • Apr 2018
            • 164

            #335
            "Practice in time becomes second nature. "
            — Unattributed

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            • gavinl
              Member
              • Feb 2019
              • 35

              #336
              "Smash forehead on keyboard to continue."— Anonymous.

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              • Eureka
                Member
                • Oct 2018
                • 330

                #337
                "For hostile word let hostile word be paid" - Aeschylus
                (posted at the request of KittyKatMeow)

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                • Fudi
                  Member
                  • Apr 2018
                  • 164

                  #338
                  "A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity."
                  — Baltasar Gracián

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                  • Scastor
                    Member
                    • Jul 2020
                    • 4

                    #339
                    I need help. I been trying to figure this quote out for awhile and haven't found anything remotely close. An someone here help me? It's by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and it goes.

                    "QI UVZCYJOXWQN QX JYIFOC
                    UVTIKOCOJ POXK".

                    Please help me.

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                    • Fudi
                      Member
                      • Apr 2018
                      • 164

                      #340
                      "A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day. "
                      — Proverb

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                      • Fudi
                        Member
                        • Apr 2018
                        • 164

                        #341
                        "To be simply ensconced in God is true joy."
                        — Alfred Armand Montapert

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                        • Fudi
                          Member
                          • Apr 2018
                          • 164

                          #342
                          "As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible. "
                          — Wallace Stevens

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                          • Fudi
                            Member
                            • Apr 2018
                            • 164

                            #343
                            "Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks."
                            — Ovid

                            Ovid just may be the bane of my existence.

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                            • Fudi
                              Member
                              • Apr 2018
                              • 164

                              #344
                              Who saves his country violates no law. "
                              — Napoleon Bonaparte

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                              • Fudi
                                Member
                                • Apr 2018
                                • 164

                                #345
                                "Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets."
                                — Albert Jay Nock

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