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"All Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called Celts, in ours Gauls, the third."
"He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master."
"Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death."
"Did you see me disarm Hermione, Harry?" "Only once" said Hermione stung. "I got you loads more then you got me—" "I did not only get you once, I got you at least three times—" "Well if you're counting the one where you tripped over your own feet and knocked the wand out of my hand—"
"Germany's amongst my top three places in the world I'd like to live."
"Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylæ!"
"In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not."
"Fondest memory of being a Beatle: Having three brothers."
"People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan."
"There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who cannot."
"Wherever you go, there are three icons that everyone knows: Jesus Christ, Pele and Coca-Cola."
"Friends, you and me... you brought another friend... and then there were three... we started our group... our circle of friends... and like that circle... there is no beginning or end."
"The three things you can offer your children to change them: attention, appreciation and affection."
"An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile."
"There are three stages of life: youth, maturity, and 'My, you're looking good!'"
"Three rules: I do not eat too much; I do not worry too much; and, if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best."
"I've made forty-three pictures. Naturally I'm adorable in all of them."
"Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer."
"Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence."
"So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words: food, peace, work."
