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"London is like a dream come true. As I ramble through it I am haunted by the curious feeling of something half-forgotten, but still dimly remembered, like a reminiscence of some previous state of existence. It is at once familiar and strange."
"The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning."
"The simple-hearted and sincere never do more than half deceive themselves."
"If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner."
"Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free.""
"I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy."
"I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out."
"I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place."
"If the boxers are a little more colorful, talk a little like I did and just do half as much as I did for boxing, it will be all right."
"As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all."
"A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him."
"I had been doing something for more than half of my life that I wanted to continue doing - I really loved making the film and I really love acting and it is what I want to do."
"But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart."
"Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole."
"The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. (on being 36 yrs old)"
"Half my fan mail comes from Japan."
"Half-wits talk much, but say little."
"An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half an hour in the Sun; after which it will never ach more; Probatum est."
"At least half of my life's many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia."
"I got my boobs done because I wanted to even out my lower half, and I thought that would take the focus away from my hips."
