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Never promise more than you can perform.
-- Publilius Syrus
To err is human; to forgive is simply not our policy.
-- MIT Assasination Club
The course of true anything never does run smooth.
-- Samuel Butler
Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
-- John Heywood
Two heads are more numerous than one.
Walking on water wasn't built in a day.
-- Jack Kerouac
A bird in the bush usually has a friend in there with him.
Things are not always what they seem.
-- Phaedrus
A man who carries a cat by its tail learns something he can learn
in no other way.
A friend in need is a pest indeed.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
-- H.H. Munro, "Saki"
A man's best friend is his dogma.
Absence makes the heart go wander.
I know on which side my bread is buttered.
-- John Heywood
A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.
A wise man can see more from a mountain top than a fool can from the bottom
of a well.
Mistakes are often the stepping stones to utter failure.
It is better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
Haste makes waste.
-- John Heywood
Removing the straw that broke the camel's back does not necessarily
allow the camel to walk again.