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| #8994 |   | An idle mind is worth two in the bush.
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| #8995 |   | An ounce of clear truth is worth a pound of obfuscation.
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| #8996 |   | An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. 		-- Michael Korda
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| #8997 |   | An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. 		-- Spanish proverb
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| #8998 |   | "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of purge."
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| #8999 |   | And tomorrow will be like today, only more so. 		-- Isaiah 56:12, New Standard Version
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| #9000 |   | Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. 		-- Proverbs, 26:5
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| #9001 |   | Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea.  For instance, my grandmother used to say, "The black cat is always the last one off the fence." I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true. 		-- Solomon Short
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| #9002 |   | Any philosophy that can be put "in a nutshell" belongs there. 		-- Sydney J. Harris
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| #9003 |   | Any road followed to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain. 		-- Bene Gesserit proverb, "Dune"
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