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Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged f

Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. – Stanislaw Lec

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When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. – Stanislaw Lec

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Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs. РAntoine de Saint-Exup̩ry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by St

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It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. – Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish

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