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I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness i

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. – Leo Rosten

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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. – Leo Rosten

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