"Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told."
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"My old man said, `Follow the van, Don't dilly-dally on the way!' But I dillied and dallied, dallied and dillied, Lost the van and don't know where to roam."
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"Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost."
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"[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!"
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"I do not believe that any human being is fundamentally happier for being finally lost in a crowd, even if it is called a crowd of comrades."
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"I've gotten jobs because I'm a woman, and I've lost jobs because I'm a woman. So just do the best work you can. It won't go unnoticed."
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"If something good has lost its way into you, it will make its escape overnight. I know you."
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"Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations."
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"Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost."
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"But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose."
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"Many find their heart when they have lost their head."
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"Forgiveness is the finding again of a lost possession."
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"I lost my way for a long time."
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"Would you mind repeating that? I'm afraid I might have lost my wits altogether and just hallucinated what I've longed to hear."
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"But what could I lose by continuing that had not already been lost?"
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"I don't know how much money I've got. I did ask the accountant how much it came to. I wrote it down on a bit of paper. But I've lost the bit of paper."
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"It made you feel very small, very lost, and yet it was not altogether depressing, that feeling. After all, if you were small, the grimy beetle crawled on - which was just what you wanted it to do."
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"I lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life."
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"This is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable because absurd. If I have lost the meaning of my life, I might still find small treasured things among the spilled and pilfered trash."
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"To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost."
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