"Take heede of an oxe before, of an horse behind, of a monke on all sides."
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"Curtesie on one side only lasts not long."
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"Sometimes you don't realize you've crossed a line until you're on the other side and can't go back."
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"If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!"
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"A fair bargain leaves both sides unhappy."
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"On the other side of every mountain was another mountain."
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"Painful as the task is to describe the dark side of our affairs, it sometimes becomes a matter of indispensable necessity."
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"In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill; whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought."
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"Emma was no asleep, she was pretending to be asleep; and, while he was dozing off at her side, she lay awake, dreaming other dreams."
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"The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of any mountain."
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"The front aspect of great thoughts can only be enjoyed by those who stand on the side whence they arrive."
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"My businesses are usually built around challenging conventional wisdom, so I tend to gain by taking the other side. It's been very profitable and entertaining for me"
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"The moment one is on the side of life; peace and security drop out of consciousness. The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment."
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"I really wanted to talk about the War on Terror and say that both sides were completely incompetent [in addressing it]. You can't blame the other side when you're involved in it."
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"Whenever the horse stopped (which it did very often), he fell off in front; and, whenever it went on again (which it generally did rather suddenly), he fell off behind. Otherwise he kept on pretty well, except that he had a habit of now and then falling off sideways; and, as he generally did this on the side on which Alice was walking, she soon found that it was the best plan not to walk quite close to the horse."
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"I've tried lots with my hair. Obviously I used to have it as a number one all over, super easy, but then I started to grow it out. I had an afro and then I got rid of the sides."
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"The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side."
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"You treat God like you treat any dangerous looney — keep him calm and stay on his good side."
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"The various languages placed side by side show that with words it is never a question of truth, never a question of adequate expression; otherwise, there would not be so many languages. The 'thing in itself' (which is precisely what the pure truth, apart from any of its consequences, would be) is likewise something quite incomprehensible to the creator of language and something not in the least worth striving for."
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"Life did not present its sunny side to thee."
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