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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discover

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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Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. – Leo Rosten

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The purpose of life is not to be happy – but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. – Leo Rosten

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Seeking is not always the way to find. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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It would be a very big book that contained all the maybes uttered in a day. – French Proverb

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