"The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education."
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"I never get used to it, the unknowable mystery of a person so suddenly, totally closed, snapped shut like a half-read novel."
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"A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation."
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"Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)"
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"I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman."
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"Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself."
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"Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way."
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"Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous."
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"It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant."
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"The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure."
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"It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing."
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"This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience."
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"So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed."
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"I like young actors because they're so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me."
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"I can tell just from working closely for the last year an half with president-elect [Donald Trump] and even over the course of the last six weeks, he has no problem with differing opinions in a room."
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"No one attacks loose-thinking and folly with half the precision and zest of Thomas Szasz."
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"I have starved and it isn't nearly as bad as is generally supposed. Four days and a half was my longest stretch. Maybe there are pains that come later. Personally I think terror is the painful part of starvation."
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"At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something afoot in this country and you are very much a part of it."
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"It is better to dream big and get half of it, then dream small and get all of it."
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"But I was a pure romantic, and only operating with half my burners turned on."
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