"Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf."
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"Better know nothing than half-know many things."
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"She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour."
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"If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself."
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"A work well begun is half-ended."
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"A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors."
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"He hears but half who hears one party only."
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"At my core, the glass isn't half-empty, it's not even what I ordered in the first place."
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"Half a calamity is better than a whole one."
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"No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed."
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"Study your subject through half-closed eyes before starting to draw - you'll find that the lights and darks are exaggerated and easier to identify."
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"Sometimes in life situations develop that only the half-crazy can get out of."
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"Some see the glass half full, some see it half empty, and some see it crawling with toxic alien parasites who want to devour your pancreas."
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"What a strange life I lead- a kind of Cinderella-life-half glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders! But it is a wonderful life all the same."
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"It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life."
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"This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half."
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"Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it just to reach you."
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"It was like seeing Bill Gates at age thirteen, times two. And half of him was wearing a cheerleader uniform. Yes, I know that’s a weird image."
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"My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was."
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"The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one."
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